Sharpshooter Matt Quigley is hired from Wyoming by an Australian rancher paying a very high price. But when Quigley arrives Down Under, all is not as it seems.
Director:
Simon Wincer
Stars:
Tom Selleck,
Laura San Giacomo,
Alan Rickman
A writer of BAD detective novels is in full writers' block. He pretends to be the alibi of a beautiful woman who was arrested for murder at first thinking her innocent, but as she shows ... See full summary »
Director:
Bruce Beresford
Stars:
Tom Selleck,
Paulina Porizkova,
William Daniels
Monte Walsh and Chet Rollins are long-time cowhands, working whatever ranch work comes their way, but "nothing they can't do from a horse." Their lives are divided between months on the ... See full summary »
Director:
Simon Wincer
Stars:
Tom Selleck,
Isabella Rossellini,
Keith Carradine
In the near future, a police officer specializes in malfunctioning robots. When a robot turns out to have been programmed to kill, he begins to uncover a homicidal plot to create killer robots... and his son becomes a target.
After the Civil War, a returning Confederate veteran must reclaim his Arizona land and homestead from the Yankee carpetbaggers who illegally occupy it.
When the body of a fourteen-year-old teenager is found in the margin of a lake in Paradise, Massachusetts, the Chief of Police Jesse Stone and his officer Simpson seek clues in the spot. ... See full summary »
A fascinating journey to China with Gesher Theater and their play "village". This is the first time that Gesher theater embarks on a month to China to present "village" to the Chinese ... See full summary »
Director:
Albert Gabay
Stars:
Henry David,
Israel Sasha Demidov,
Mickey Leon
Police Chief Jesse Stone, who was suspended by the Paradise, Mass. Town Council, begins moonlighting for his friend, State Homicide Commander Healy, by investigating a series of murders in ... See full summary »
A biplane pilot is saddled with a spoiled industrialist's daughter on a search for her missing father through Asia that eventually involves them in a struggle against a Chinese warlord.Written by
Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca>
Second assistant director Chris Carreras and lead actress Bess Armstrong met whilst working on the movie. The pair started a personal relationship which lead to a marriage before the two were divorced in 1984. Publicity for the picture reported how Armstrong fell in love during the production shoot, both on the set in real life with the 2nd A.D. and on the set in the movie's story, her Eve character falling in love with Tom Selleck's Patrick character. See more »
Goofs
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. See more »
Quotes
Suleman Khan:
You will be my welcome guests for dinner
Struts:
Is he going to eat us or feed us?
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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.
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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.