James Hilton, in reality, was a little-known writer, except for the detail that, in 1937, one of the great Hollywood directors, named Frank Capra, brought the best-known of his novels to the screens: Lost Horizons. He did it, furthermore, as an anti-war plea, which, unfortunately, did not serve or served very little to the madness of a world that was on the eve of embarking on the terrible vicissitudes of the Second World War.