high road to china

Director: brian g. hutton

Actor: tom selleck,bess armstrong,jack weston,wilford brimley

Data Published: Fri Mar 18 1983

Genres: Adventure,Drama,Romance,War

Key Words: pilot,missing father,warlord,world war one,country name in title

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085678/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Road_to_China

Description: High Road to China is a movie starring Tom Selleck, Bess Armstrong, and Jack Weston. During WW1, an alcoholic American biplane pilot is hired by the spoiled daughter of an industrialist to find her father who disappeared in Asia.

Plot: Eve Tozer (Bess Armstrong) is a society heiress and flapper living the high-life in 1920s Istanbul. She needs to find her father, Bradley Tozer (Wilford Brimley), before he is officially declared dead or risk losing her inheritance to his scheming business partner, Bentik (Robert Morley). She only has 12 days. Eve hires World War I ace pilot Patrick O'Malley (Tom Selleck) and his aircraft. O'Malley is eager to take the job as he needs to leave town rather urgently himself. Eve, also an accomplished pilot, however, is determined to accompany him in his other aircraft, which causes the first of many arguments on the way from Istanbul and China. Their journey in two biplanes (named "Dorothy" and "Lillian" after the famous Gish silent film star sisters[2]) through six countries leads them to finally find the eccentric Bradley Tozer in China, where he is helping a small village defend itself against a local warlord. O'Malley and Eve help them win the final battle, but their one remaining aircraft is damaged in the process, leaving her seemingly unable to meet her deadline.