- Actors: Tom Selleck, Bess Armstrong, Robert Morley, Jack Weston, Wilford Brimley
- Directors: Brian G. Hutton
- Format: PAL, Colour, HiFi Sound, Full Screen
- Language English
- Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
- Classification: PG
- Studio: The Video Collection
- Run Time: 100 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B000M518Z4
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 8,780 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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Product Description
A biplane pilot is saddled with a spoiled industrialist's daughter on a search for her missing father through Asia that eventually involves them in a struggle against a Chinese warlord.
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
What a pity.
What a shame.
I bought this movie because I had the tape recorded in the US from Cinemax and I remembered this movie as a funny adventure and a highly entertaining picture.
I had hoped, since it is transferred on DVD, to receive the letterboxed or at least the full widescreen edition of it.
Nope. No such luck. It starts in widescreen (due probably to the titles) and lands up to be a Pan & Scan version of the movie.
The length is correct, at slightly over 100 minutes, but the first ten minutes are ruined by an underground persistent noise, which I can only suspect is due to the copy they used to perform the digital transfer (no, it is not transferred from a tape, at least this is good news).
The quality of the image though is not as bad as one may suspect. It is not terrific, but it is decent for such a movie.
Yet, I would wish that even this movie were picked up by someone serious and committed enough to find a pristine Widescreen copy of the same and able to clean it up in both sound and color and then re-distribute it conveniently.
But since this was a so-called independent movie, I suspect we will have to wait years before this happens.
Golden Harvest does not exist any longer, and I would not know who owns the actual rights to the movie.
But who ever does, should actually care more about his or her ownership and do something about it, instead of sitting around and doing nothing.
Movies are an artistic heritage for all the world to share, and especially with tiny gems like this one, they should be treated with much more deserved respect.
Buy it if you don't already own the VHS tape. If you do, sit on it, it is better.
What a shame.
I bought this movie because I had the tape recorded in the US from Cinemax and I remembered this movie as a funny adventure and a highly entertaining picture.
I had hoped, since it is transferred on DVD, to receive the letterboxed or at least the full widescreen edition of it.
Nope. No such luck. It starts in widescreen (due probably to the titles) and lands up to be a Pan & Scan version of the movie.
The length is correct, at slightly over 100 minutes, but the first ten minutes are ruined by an underground persistent noise, which I can only suspect is due to the copy they used to perform the digital transfer (no, it is not transferred from a tape, at least this is good news).
The quality of the image though is not as bad as one may suspect. It is not terrific, but it is decent for such a movie.
Yet, I would wish that even this movie were picked up by someone serious and committed enough to find a pristine Widescreen copy of the same and able to clean it up in both sound and color and then re-distribute it conveniently.
But since this was a so-called independent movie, I suspect we will have to wait years before this happens.
Golden Harvest does not exist any longer, and I would not know who owns the actual rights to the movie.
But who ever does, should actually care more about his or her ownership and do something about it, instead of sitting around and doing nothing.
Movies are an artistic heritage for all the world to share, and especially with tiny gems like this one, they should be treated with much more deserved respect.
Buy it if you don't already own the VHS tape. If you do, sit on it, it is better.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Originally intended as a Roger Moore vehicle before being given to Tom Selleck as a consolation prize for missing out on Indiana Jones, formulaic old-fashioned adventure High Road to China is not a great film, but it's not a terrible one either. Directed by Brian G. Hutton as a `favor,' it gets off to an awkwardly perfunctory start that just feels like it's going through the motions, but while it doesn't exactly hits the heights it does get a lot better as it goes along until it settles down to being a forgettably enjoyable enough time-filler. John Barry's score is pleasant enough but far too laid back to add much oomph to a film that definitely needs it.
The Swedish PAL DVD isn't great, but offers an acceptable transfer with English soundtrack and with removeable Swedish subtitles. The only extras are trailers for The Deer Hunter, Highlander and The Third Twin but not the main feature itself.
The Swedish PAL DVD isn't great, but offers an acceptable transfer with English soundtrack and with removeable Swedish subtitles. The only extras are trailers for The Deer Hunter, Highlander and The Third Twin but not the main feature itself.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
High Road to China is a great film. I really enjoyed the chemistry between Tom Selleck and Bess Armstrong. Good flying pictures. Good story, well worth watching.
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High Road to China
its been years since i saw this film - its a basic plot with some enjoyable perfomances including Brian Blessed. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Scarlett o'Hara
High Road for Enjoyment
Il will not waste time on very technical aspects. I had this movie (1983) on a French VHS which is now dead. So I really enjoyed it (PAL DVD, 2), even without French subtitle. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Xenophon12
High Road to China
DVD was purchased knowing that it was not for Region 1. But Toshiba SD-K770 is supposed to be a "Multi Region" DVD player. Disc would not play showing "Wrong Region". Amazon. Read more
Published 20 months ago by William I. Walker
HIGH ROAD TO CHINA - JOHN BARRY SOUNDTRACK
Although I have to agree with predecessing commentators, concerning the quality of film-sharpness and certain extra-deviant background noises on this dvd-soundtrack version; as a... Read more
Published 20 months ago by PETER THOON
High Road to China
Entertaining movie.
Nicely packaged.
Delivered promptly.
Good price.
What could be better?
Nicely packaged.
Delivered promptly.
Good price.
What could be better?
Published 20 months ago by Michael Boswell
High Road to China
Ive been after this film for years, if you like Tom Selleck its a must, basically its an adventure film a cheap Indiana Jones if you will but well fun and enjoyable, transfer is... Read more
Published 21 months ago by G. James
Suprisingly decent!
I bought this for my boyfriend who watched it as a child and wanted to reminisce on his youth! I thought I would have to suffer through it but turns out it was actually a very... Read more
Published on 27 April 2010 by jane_cufc
High road to China
This is such an awful film. Everything about it is badly done. Story, acting, badly dubbed photography. Dont waste your money.
Published on 14 Feb 2010 by BMR
High road to China
Delivery was excellent (from Holland)as was Amazons service, the picture quality is very good but the sound quality is pretty poor, I decided to keep the DVD however, but because... Read more
Published on 5 Feb 2010 by Pepsi
Great film - shame about the sound
Agree with previous reviews. A great "feel good" movie spoiled by intrusive background noise. Probably due to technical problems when the film was transfered from tape to DVD. Read more
Published on 17 Jan 2010 by Historian
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