High Road to China is a 1983 adventure-romance film, set in the 1920s, starring Tom Selleck as a hard-drinking biplane pilot hired by society heiress Eve 'Evie' Tozer to find her missing father . The supporting cast includes Robert Morley and Brian Blessed. The Golden Harvest film was directed by Brian G. Hutton, loosely based on a novel by Australian author Jon Cleary. The musical score was composed by John Barry. It was the 27th highest grossing film of 1983, bringing in $28,445,927 at the domestic box office. Eve Tozer is a society heiress and flapper living the high-life in 1920s... Istanbul. She needs to find her father before he is officially declared dead or risk losing her inheritance to his scheming business partner Bentik . She hires WWI ace-pilot Patrick O'Malley and his planes to locate her father. O'Malley is eager to take the job as he needs to leave town rather urgently himself. However, Eve, also an accomplished pilot, is determined to accompany him in his other aircraft, which causes the first of many arguments between Istanbul and China.
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| Release date: | 1983 |
| Directed by: | Brian G. Hutton |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 105 Minutes |
| Producer: | Fred Weintraub |
| Music by: | John Barry |
| Genre: | Adventure |