Lost in the Stars is the 1974 film version of the Kurt Weill-Maxwell Anderson musical adaptation of the Alan Paton novel Cry, the Beloved Country.

Directed by Daniel Mann, the film follows a Zulu preacher, Reverend Stephen Kumalo (Brock Peters), in his journey to Johannesburg to search for his long-missing son, Absalom (Clifton Davis).

He discovers his son is a paroled felon living in a shantytown with his pregnant girlfriend (Melba Moore).

Absolom is jailed, tried and sentenced to death, leaving his father unable to continue his ministerial work.

Time Out New York called it "a series of well-intentioned clichés"[4] while Film Threat stated it was "not the missing classic that one hopes it could be.