
“I knew a lot of people were dying.”Įven the co-owner of the Foxfield Riding School-the site of what had been Sherwood Forest and Capra’s Shangri-La-didn’t realize she was sitting on a little piece of paradise. He has chronicled everything remotely Shangri-La-what stars tested for which roles, what scenes were shot on which stages. That hasn’t been unknown to film buffs, but the history of Shangri-La is taking on new life in the research of Kendall Miller, a Modesto wholesale-grocery buyer who is one of the world’s foremost “Lost Horizon” scholars.įor three years, Miller has interviewed the movie’s few surviving cast and crew members. The Ojai footage is a mere glimpse in the movie, but the scenes of happy villagers cavorting in the Conejo go on for at least five minutes.
