<P> Lost Horizon is considered one of the last in a string of box office musical failures which came in the wake of the success of The Sound of Music . Attempts to update the idea of Shangri - La with its racial inequalities intact, coupled with old - fashioned songs effectively sealed its fate according to New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael . She noted that Shangri - La was depicted as: </P> <P> a middle - class geriatric utopia (where)... you can live indefinitely, lounging and puttering about for hundreds of years...the Orientals are kept in their places, and no blacks...are among the residents . There's probably no way to rethink this material without throwing it all away . </P> <P> After derided preview screenings Columbia Pictures attempted to re-cut the film, but to no avail . Critic John Simon remarked that it "must have arrived in garbage rather than in film cans ." The songs were written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, whose long and successful partnership was effectively terminated by their experiences working on the score . Bacharach felt that the producers were sanctioning weakened versions of his music, and he attempted to exert greater influence over what was being developed . However this led to him being banned from the editing suite . His animosity towards David, whom he felt was inadequately supportive, destroyed their professional relationship . Bacharach's own vision of the music was later realised in his album Living Together (1974). </P> <P> Lost Horizon was such a poor performer at the box office that the film subsequently gained the nickname "Lost Investments ." Bette Midler alluded to it as "Lost Her - Reason" and famously quipped, "I never miss a Liv Ullmann musical ." </P>

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