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High Road to China (1983)
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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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I love this movie. It is one of my favorites!
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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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The biplanes, Dorothy and Lillian, are French-built Stampes, which were built after WW II. Actual Stampes were civilian aircraft without armament. This explains the high mounting positions of the Lewis guns.
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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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While true that this movie isn't Academy Award material, it is very enjoyable and touchingly romantic. The scenery is breathtaking at times and the film flows well. It starts in a party atmosphere and becomes a romantic adventure story. It is a good cross between a "Chick Flick" and an adventure story. I have flown open cockpit biplanes and perhaps that makes the film even more enduring for me.
There is plenty of flying and small war skirmishes are smattered in with the search for a rich brat's father. She (Bess Armstrong as Eve Tozer) must find the father and get him to a British court before the deadline or she will lose all of her money. If the partner, Bentik, can have Bradley Tozer (Wilford Brimley) declared as dead in a British court then he gets the whole company; thus relieving Eve Tozer of the heaps of her fathers money. And it is about money that this girl lives for, or so it seems. She enlists the help of a derelict and decrepit old WW1 ace, Tom Selleck, who has the only two available airplanes to get her to her father in time. Assassins are employed by Bradley Tozers partner to keep him from being found adding more tension to the already danger filled trail.
While the romance angle is as predictable as it is in just about any film, the story does flow well and the scenery also helps to keep ones interest. Rent this one and settle down for some fun. I would rate this film as three out of four stars.