High Road to China

High Road to China

Infobox Film
name = High Road to China


image_size =
caption = Theatrical release poster
director = Brian G. Hutton
producer = Fred Weintraub
writer = Jon Cleary
S. Lee Pogostin
Sandra Weintraub
narrator =
starring = Tom Selleck
Bess Armstrong
Jack Weston
Wilford Brimley
Robert Morley
music = John Barry
cinematography = Ronnie Taylor
editing =
distributor = Warner Bros.
released = March 18, 1983
runtime = 105 min
country = YUG
USA
language = English
budget =
gross =
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followed_by =
website =
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imdb_id = 0085678

High Road to China is a 1983 adventure-comedy film, set in the 1920s, starring Tom Selleck as a hard-drinking biplane pilot hired by society heiress Bess Armstrong to find her missing father (Wilford Brimley). The supporting cast includes Robert Morley and Brian Blessed. The Golden Harvest film (released by Warner Bros.) was directed by Brian G. Hutton, very loosely based on a novel by Australian author Jon Cleary. The musical score was composed by John Barry. It was the 27th highest grossing film of 1983, bringing in $28,445,927 at the domestic box office. [ [http://movies.go.com/boxoffice?cat=1983 1983 box office results at Movies.com] ]

Cast

*Tom Selleck as Patrick O'Malley
*Bess Armstrong as Eve 'Evie' Tozer
*Jack Weston as Struts
*Wilford Brimley as Bradley Tozer
*Robert Morley as Bentik
*Brian Blessed as Suleman Khan

Plot

Eve Tozer (Bess Armstrong) is a society heiress and flapper living the high-life in 1920s Istanbul. She needs to find her father (Wilford Brimley) before he is officially declared dead or risk losing her inheritance to his scheming partner Bentik (Robert Morley). She hires WWI ace-pilot Patrick O'Malley (Tom Selleck) and his planes to locate her father. O'Malley is eager to take the job as he needs to leave town rather urgently himself. However, Eve, an accomplished pilot herself, is determined to accompany him in his other aircraft, which causes the first of many arguments between London and China.

Their journey in two biplanes (named Dorothy and Lillian) through six countries leads them to finally find the eccentric Bradley Tozer in China, where he is helping a small village to fight against an invading warlord. O'Malley and Eve help them to win the final battle, but Eve's father refuses to return with her to London.

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