Lost Horizon

Badly conceived MUSICAL remake of the 30's flick. I was forced to see this on the big screen back in 1973... I should get therapy now

Musicalizations of classic films are a dicey proposition to begin with, but a musical with horrible music is as DOA as they come, and the Burt Bacharach/Hal David score for LOST HORIZON (a couple of catchy melodies aside) is pretty horrible; mushy ballads, clunky lyrics, etc. And what comes between the songs isn't much better. The story is thin, with some incredibly dated racist subtexts; the actors seem mostly helpless (and hopeless); and at 149 minutes, it's almost unwatchably boring.