Take off on the road to high adventure!
Starring Tom Selleck, Bess Armstrong, Jack Weston, Wilford Brimley, Robert Morley, Brian Blessed, and Cassandra Gava
Directed by Brian G. Hutton
A broken-down, boozed-up World War I flying ace. A beautiful, high-strung, headstrong heiress. A missing father, a ruthless killer, an Afghan chieftain, and a sadistic Chinese warlord.
Mix these classic elements together, add a pair of vintage biplanes, and you've got "High Road To China" - a direct route to some of the fastest, funniest, highest-flying adventures ever to beckon you from lands unknown.
The actions starts in Istanbul, where expatriate air ace Patrick O'Malley runs a so-called flying school - with 100-proof alcohol as fuel. In to O'Malley's tailspin life comes Eve Tozer, a poor little rich girl soon to experience real poverty unless she can prove her millionaire father is still alive. Last seen in Afghanistan, Eve's father is a needle in an Asian haystack. O'Malley isn't interested in heroism for hire. But Eve is a woman who gets what she goes after. If the only way to get there is with O'Malley's planes, she'll make him an offer he can't refuse.
Tom Selleck and Bess Armstrong co-star as O'Malley and his hot-headed employer, who keeps upping the ante to keep O'Malley on course. Their flight path takes them through battles, dogfights, rescues, and hair-breadth escapes. In the air they make a great team. On the ground, they fight like cats and dogs.
Color, 105 MIN, PG, 1983
1983 Warner Home Video