High Road to China

High Road to China aka Raiders of the End of the World is a 1983 adventureromance film, set in the 1920s, starring Tom Selleck in his first major starring role, playing a harddrinking 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 a 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.

High Road to China is regarded as one of the better imitators that populated movie theaters in the years following Raiders of the Lost Ark.citation needed Rumor has it that it was given to Selleck as a sort of consolation prize for having to pass on Raiders of the Lost Ark due to scheduling conflicts with Magnum, P.I.In early development, the film was slated to star Roger Moore and Jacqueline Bisset under the direction of John Huston. ........

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