James Hilton's 1933 novel was made into a Frank Capra film a few years later, and its cinematic qualities are easy to spot: a plane crash, the survivors' trek through the mountains, and their arrival at a mysterious and serene Shangri-La (the name originates here). There is also a rather artificially binary dispute between the doomed outside world and this Eden populated by contemplative lamas. Stay or go?
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