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Title: High Road to China (1983) Post by: Neville on May 06, 2008, 05:01:34 PM (http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/400/snapshot20080506232737uj5.jpg)
Seriously, what's not to love in this movie? We have a man and a woman travelling to exotic places while looking for her father, lovely aerial vistas, characters with just the right ammount of grumpyness and a sweeping John Barry score. If "Tales of the golden monkey" and the Sierra videogame "Heart of China" had a son, it would be pretty much like this movie. I've always wanted to see it but never did, because it has this terrible reputation of being a low grade "Indiana Jones" copycat, made to cash in from the word of mouth that Tom Selleck was seriously considered to play Indy, but it's instead a good old-fashioned adventure yarn, the kind that didn't need self-concious dialogue or CGI to sell itself. Highly recommended. Title: Re: High Road to China (1983) Post by: indianasmith on May 06, 2008, 08:30:23 PM I saw this one a long time ago. I remember Selleck's character was an embittered World War I flying ace - an instant selling point with me!!!
Title: Re: High Road to China (1983) Post by: JJ80 on May 13, 2008, 11:03:03 AM I remember seeing a fair percentage of this film when I was a kid. It was damn good fun, especially when they finally get to China and have to help the villagers defend themselves against a powerful warlord's army. That had possibly the best flying stunts in the entire film.
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