High Road to China
Eve, an heiress/flapper during the 1920s, needs to find her missing father as fast as she can. Otherwise, his former partner will take over his business, and Eve will lose her inheritance. She enlists the help of world-weary, hard-drinking biplane pilot O'Malley, and their arguing soon turns into romance.
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High Road To China - Old_Video_Man
This is a FANTASTIC film, and all Zip.ca members should contact Warner Brothers to have the Region 1 DVD released so everyone can enjoy it. Like It happened One Night, The African Queen, and Six Days & Seven Nights, it features a hard drinking, down-to-earth leading man put into dangerous and often hilarious situations with a rich, "upper-class" heroine.
The chemistry between Tom Selleck and Bess Armstrong is excellent as are the performances of the supporting cast, including Robert Morley, Jack Weston, Wilford Brimley and especially Brian Blessed. If you liked any of the Indiana Jones movies - you'll love this one too. There's drama, comedy, action, adventure, and romance plus an outstanding musical score in this memorable good old fashioned escape movie, set in post World-war I Asia, India and China. People are paying big bucks on line to buy VHS copies of this film - I wore out may tape after watching it so many times. It's a keeper - it should be released in Widescreen DVD.Mostly Fun, But Entirely Predictable - revsdd
"High Road To China" is fun to watch. It features decent performances from the two leads: Tom Selleck as ace pilot Patrick O'Malley and Bess Armstrong as rich girl Eve Tozer, and it has some good photography and camera work, and some decent action scenes. Unfortunately, the story itself leaves much to be desired. Predictable almost from the start, it doesn't provide enough "meat" to really captivate.
Eve is a rich girl in the 1920's who stands to lose everything unless she can find her father, who was last seen three years before in Afghanistan. She hires O'Malley to take her to the region, and the pair begin their search, complete with a love/hate relationship with each other. To make their search more complicated, Eve's father's former business partner - who stands to take over the business (and thus Eve's money) unless her dad is found quickly - has people out trying to stop them. There were problems with the story. The efforts to stop them never really seemed threatening - there was never any real sense that Eve and O'Malley were in any real danger. It was far too easy to find Eve's dad. They had to make a lot of stops, but they always found someone who knew just who to go to for information. Interestingly, even though Selleck and Armstrong gave good performances, they didn't really sparkle with chemistry - the romance elements of the story seemed forced and insincere to me. (I confess that I did like the last line of the movie, given to Selleck, who closes by admitting to Eve that he had made a mistake. When she asks what it was, you expect him to say "falling in love with you." Instead he admits essentially the same thing, but by way of a joke - "I should have sold you as a slave when I had the chance!" The line has to be seen in its context to really be appreciated.)
It's an enjoyable escapist movie, but it's not very meaty, it's far too predictable and it certainly doesn't leave you breathless.
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High Road To China - Old_Video_Man
This is a FANTASTIC film, and all Zip.ca members should contact Warner Brothers to have the Region 1 DVD released so everyone can enjoy it. Like It happened One Night, The African Queen, and Six Days & Seven Nights, it features a hard drinking, down-to-earth ...Mostly Fun, But Entirely Predictable - revsdd
"High Road To China" is fun to watch. It features decent performances from the two leads: Tom Selleck as ace pilot Patrick O'Malley and Bess Armstrong as rich girl Eve Tozer, and it has some good photography and camera work, and some decent action scenes. ...