Word: horizonal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Doctors have tried, but over the years they have found nothing that is sure comfort to people who get sick riding on ships, planes, streetcars or camels. They have given advice (eat, don't eat, lie down, move around, wear an abdominal belt, keep your eye on the horizon). They have also suggested such medicines as Atropine (which tones down intestinal activity, believed to be a factor in nausea), Prostigmin (which keeps the stomach working in the right direction), and sedatives. Nothing worked well enough...
Today "Lost Horizon" and "Holiday" form the bill. The first, a screen adaptation of James Hilton's novel, stars Ronald Coleman, and deserves its recall and its reputation as an exciting adventure film. "Holiday" is a Phillip Barry show with Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant handling the lead light comedy roles...
Legendary Atlantis may have been "enticing-exciting-exotic" as the billboards claim, but the movie "Siren of Atlantis" is not. This latest attempt to reproduce the "Lost Horizon" twist ends up in a dull, uninteresting, drab film...
...switch on "Lost Horizon" involves French Foreign Legionnaires instead of victims of a plane crush...
...rules this land with an iron bosom. She kills people right and left and has their bodies encased in metal for an interesting trophy room. Although she ensnares Jean Pierre Aumont, he manages to escape, and then tries to return for no better reason than to follow the "Lost Horizon" plot...