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on 12/1/2010
China. The 1930s. Civil war. It was a rough place with glamorous people performing heroic deeds (and less heroic deeds) trying to escape the unstoppably brutal Nationalist/Communist tyranny if Hollywood is to be believed. Of these two I prefer Shanghai Express. It's a gripping thriller on a train in which Anna May Wong outshines Dietrich as a femme fatale. Lost Horizon has great cinematography and Capra directing, yet the narrative gets bogged down in too many philosophical discussions on the desirability (or otherwise) of Shangri-La. The Express wins.