High Road to China

MOVIE #1,028 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿

EVERY OTHER MONDAY, A COMPLETELY RANDOM FILM IS CHOSEN TO WATCH + REVIEW - THIS IS TRUE RANDOM, VOL. XLVIII Well, this is the first TRUE RANDOM selection here at the new old blog. Every other Monday, I use this semi-sketchy website and I tweak the settings to select a truly random movie and if I can track it down, I must watch it! (no cheating!! those are the rules) This is regarded as one of the ‘imitators’ that populated movie theaters in the years following Raiders of the Lost Ark. It’s been awhile since I’ve seen Raiders so I guess this is an imitation? It’s based on a book that predates it so who knows. (And who bloody cares!) Anyway, Tom Selleck straight-up brutally b*tch-slaps the leading lady he ends up with at one point…

There are a couple fun action set-pieces and old timey fighter plane sequences…

Forgettable flick but definitely not atrocious. Feels like a Sunday afternoon movie of the week I would see bits of as a kid.

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High Road to China (a.k.a. Raiders of the End of the World) is a 1983 American adventure-romance film set in the 1920s starring Tom Selleck in his first major starring role, playing a hard-drinking biplane pilot hired by society heiress Eve "Evie" Tozer (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.) is loosely based on the 1977 novel of the same name by Jon Cleary. However, little beyond character names and the basic premise of an aerial race to China survived the translation to film. It was released on March 18, 1983.