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4.3/10   8 votes
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Director:
Michael Carreras
Writer:
Gordon Wellesley (writer)
Contact:
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Release Date:
2 March 1962 (Finland) more
Genre:
Adventure more
Plot:
A pilot slips his plane into Red China to rescue an American girl trapped there, but when he lands he... more | add synopsis
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Not the best Hammer film I have ever seen more (1 total)

Cast

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Richard Basehart ... Don Benton
Lisa Gastoni ... Lola Sanchez
Athene Seyler ... Mao Tai Tai

Eric Pohlmann ... Ivono Kong
Alan Gifford ... Charles Orme
Bernard Cribbins ... Pereira
Burt Kwouk ... Jimmy
Hedgar Wallace ... Inspector Taylor
Marne Maitland ... Han Po
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Sorata Ra Fat ... Hostess
Ronald Ing ... Sentry
Zoreen Ismail ... Swee Kim
Robert Lee ... Chinese Officer
Paula Li Shiu ... Girl Croupier
Milton Reid ... Bodyguard

Kevin Scott
Yvonne Shima ... Liong Ti
Gerry Lee Yen ... Room Boy
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Passport to China (USA)
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Runtime:
75 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
UK:U | Finland:K-16
Company:
Hammer Film Productions more

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Filmed in color, but shown in the US in black-and-white. more

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Not the best Hammer film I have ever seen, 29 September 2008
Author: GUENOT PHILIPPE (philippe.guenot@dbmail.com) from France

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

What a deceit. I expected much more. I know that Hammer film was not specialized in war and adventure movies, but they gave us little gems such as Camp on Blood Island, Terror of the Tongs, Yesterday's Enemy, and so on...And Michael Carreras is a good director - and producer - too. I don't understand why he has done such a flat, uninspired, talkative, dull routine drama about help to the refugee from Red China.

I almost got asleep. Nevertheless, the photography is pretty effective and the 2.35 format restores some brightness to this tepid story. A tale that we have seen a hundred times before. And often far better than this.

Richard Basehart is not enough to save the movie. Sorry...

But you can try it. Who knows...

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