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Release Date:
21 April 1983 (Australia)
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Tom Selleck takes you on a high adventure! more
Plot:
A biplane pilot is saddled with a spoiled industrialist's daughter on a search for her missing father...
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2 nominations
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Good old-fashioned chemistry
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Tom Selleck | ... | Patrick O' Malley | |
| Bess Armstrong | ... | Eve 'Evie' Tozer | |
| Jack Weston | ... | Struts | |
| Wilford Brimley | ... | Bradley Tozer | |
| Robert Morley | ... | Bentik | |
| Brian Blessed | ... | Suleman Khan | |
| Cassandra Gava | ... | Alessa | |
| Michael Sheard | ... | Charlie Shane | |
| Lynda La Plante | ... | Lina (as Lynda Marchal) | |
| Timothy Carlton | ... | Officer | |
| Shayur Mehta | ... | Ahmed | |
| Terry Richards | ... | Ginger | |
| Jeremy Child | ... | Johnny Silversmith, British Officer | |
| Peter Llewellyn Williams | ... | Franjten Khan | |
| Dino Shafeek | ... | Satvinda (as Dino Shaffer) |
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105 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Anachronisms: In the climactic battle scene, a number of the Chinese peasants can be seen using Mauser 98k rifles, a variant of the 1898 Mauser which wasn't introduced until 1935, at least a decade after this film is set.
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Suleman Khan:
You will be my welcome guests for dinner
Struts: Is he going to eat us or feed us?
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Struts: Is he going to eat us or feed us?
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Referenced in "Psych: Daredevils! (#3.3)" (2008)
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Brian G. Hutton's "High Road To China" is a classic example of good old fashioned chemistry. Lost-generation flapper hires boozy WW-I flying ace to help find her father, lost somewhere in China, to avoid losing her inheritance. You just know that they will eventually get together, and plenty of facial expressions and body language promise an ending that eventually delivers. Some great scenery and flying scenes, and burly he-manning from Brian Blessed, keep you in stitches. If this had been filmed in black and white in the 40s, it would have been up there with Casablanca, et al. Lots of low-expectation fun.