High Road to China

While promoting the film, actress Bess Armstrong once said of her co-star Tom Selleck: "He's really terrific and he's got real power now, but he doesn't use that or his attractiveness to exploit women. He seems to genuinely like women. That's rare for an actor."

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It was Tom Selleck's first major leading role in a theatrical film.

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Bess Armstrong once spoke about the very low temperatures during the film's production shoot: "… I found Yugoslavia so cold that they had to pin thermal layers under my flyaway dress so they wouldn't show… it made it impossible for me to go to the bathroom without six helpers and two people on walkie-talkies relaying my progress to the director, the cameraman and anyone else standing around!"

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All three biplanes in the film were Belgian-designed, French-built Stampe SV4C aircraft manufactured after World War II, even though the planes in the film portray World War I-era biplanes.

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Patrick O'Malley's (Tom Selleck) two biplanes were named "Dorothy" and "Lillian," after the silent film actresses and sisters Dorothy Gish and Lillian Gish.

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The machine guns on Dorothy and Lillian are Lewis Automatic Machine Guns chambered in.303 British caliber. Although the weapon was invented by a U.S. Army captain, it was adopted by nearly every Allied army in World War I before the United States adopted it in 1917. The guns were cheap and reliable, which explains how O'Malley could afford to buy a pair.

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Patrick O'Malley's (Tom Selleck) two Stampe SV4C biplanes existed in two versions. One pair was used for the aerial scenes, in long shots where actual flying was performed, while the other set was used to film the actors in close-ups, either simulated in the air or on the ground.

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Much of the film was shot in the former nation-state of Yugoslavia. Locations there stood in for many places, including settings in Nepal, China, Turkey, India and Afghanistan.

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When the biplanes land midway through the film, the language spoken by the Himalayan villagers is actually Burmese.

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The scenes featuring Robert Morley and Timothy Bateson were added after preview screenings.

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Most World War I aircraft had no interrupter gear for their machine guns, meaning they could not fire them within the propeller's arc without striking the propeller; hence the guns were mounted on the upper wing.

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According to the May 1984 British edition of Photoplay, the picture was originally conceived as a vehicle for Roger Moore. Wayne Warga's article "Author! Author!: Upwardly Prolific Down Under," published in the Los Angeles Times (2nd edition) on July 4, 1980, reported that in the early stages of development Moore was set to star opposite Jacqueline Bisset in the film, to be directed by John Huston.

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Reportedly, during the film's early development, source novelist Jon Cleary turned down the chance to work with legendary Hollywood director John Huston because Cleary did not want to live in Ireland for several months working on the script with Huston.

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Actress Phyllis Davis once said she flew to Yugoslavia to visit her friend Tom Selleck on set. He had asked her to bring a few American magazines to read, so as a joke she also brought some pornographic magazines. She was unaware that pornography was illegal in Yugoslavia and was nearly arrested at the border.

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It was one of Bess Armstrong's few leading roles in a major theatrical film.

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Tom Selleck later said of the character and the film: "I love Patrick O'Malley… At that time there were actors who left a series to start a feature career, but nobody at that point was trying to do both at once. So it was unique. It also made the jury pretty tough, because a lot of people didn't see the situation that way, and I was entering an arena where that wasn't accepted. But it's a good film. It holds up."

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It was the 27th highest-grossing film at the 1983 American box office.

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It was the last feature film directed by Brian G. Hutton.

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The film was made and released about six years after the source novel of the same name by Jon Cleary was first published in 1977.

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The picture's star, Tom Selleck, said the following about the film's score in the film's music notes: "For 'High Road to China,' John Barry composed a score that combines the film's excitement and romance with the nostalgic mood of Twenties music. The musical range covers a potpourri of the genre now referred to as 'sounds,' and it is truly a musical adventure that reinforces the spirit of the film."

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Tom Selleck described the film's screenplay as the best script he had come across in a long time; it was the kind of story he wanted to make and was perfect for his debut as a leading man in a feature film.

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The 231-strong multinational production crew in Yugoslavia included one Frenchman, ten Americans, fifteen Italians, sixty Britons and 145 Yugoslavs. The film crew was made up of British and Italian nationals, while the costume department was run by a team of Italian clothing designers.

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Around the time the film was made, Hollywood executives perceived actor Tom Selleck as a new Clark Gable, as noted in the May 1984 issue of 'Photoplay' (UK) magazine. According to 'The Guardian', the film was "an attempt to revive the kind of comedy-adventure-romance in which Clark Gable and Jean Harlow quarrel furiously but you know they are really in love". One of these pictures was titled China Seas (1935) and, like High Road to China (1983), had the word "China" in its title.

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According to the film's director, Brian G. Hutton, "In reality, the journey from Istanbul to China [as depicted in the film] is completely impossible". He added: "Making this journey would take forever. One of these biplanes probably had a flight time of four hours and a maximum range of 600-700 miles. Completing this journey would take around 4,000 refuelling stops and half a lifetime."

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It is one of two mid-1980s films about early 20th-century aviation. The other was The Aviator (1985), which also featured biplanes, was likewise set in the same post-First World War period, and was also shot in the same Yugoslav [now Croatian] region around Rijeka. At least eight Yugoslav crew members worked on both pictures.

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John Huston replaced Sidney J. Furie as director. Brian G. Hutton later replaced John Huston.

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Tragically, three members of the production crew lost their lives in a helicopter crash on the set of 'High Road to China' (1983) in Yugoslavia. They were stunt pilot David Perrin, mechanic Jaron Anderson and helicopter pilot Nigel Thornton. The deaths were announced in the show-business trade paper 'Variety' on 26 May 1982. Production on the picture was halted for four days and was scheduled to resume on 29 May 1982.

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The First World War-era replica Stampe biplanes used in the film were unarmed civilian aircraft. The Lewis machine guns on the biplanes were therefore mounted in much higher positions than normal.

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It is one of nine feature films directed by Brian G. Hutton.

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Delays in getting the film into principal photography are believed to have meant the film was postponed for so long that it conflicted with Roger Moore's commitment to the James Bond series, in which he appeared in Octopussy (1983) the same year. In the end, 'High Road to China' (1983) finished shooting in July 1982, while 'Octopussy' (1983) did not begin principal photography until around mid-August 1982.

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Many people told actress Bess Armstrong not to take a role in the film. Her casting as the female lead, Eve Tozer, was announced in the show-business trade paper 'Daily Variety' on 23 October 1981.

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Because actor Jack Weston, who played Struts, had a bad back before principal photography, a custom-built board had to be transported to the shoot in Yugoslavia to be fitted over the bed he was staying in.

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The film was set in six countries (Nepal, China, Turkey, India, England and Afghanistan) and shot in three countries: the US, England and the former Yugoslavia, which now consists of six countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia. Of these, the picture was shot in Croatia and Slovenia. Yugoslavia doubled for the six countries named above and was chosen for its "topographical diversity".

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It is one of two 1983 feature films starring Bess Armstrong, both released that year. The other picture was Jaws 3-D (1983).

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About fifteen years after the film's release, its title was used for an episode of The Drew Carey Show (1995) [see: The High Road to China (1998)].

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From the first stage of development to the final casting, the star combinations for the film's two lead roles were as follows: (1) Roger Moore and Jacqueline Bisset (2) Roger Moore and Bo Derek (3) Tom Selleck and Bess Armstrong.

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Additional photography for the picture was done in Los Angeles, California, USA, to accommodate star Tom Selleck's commitments to CBS Television and to the contracted TV film The Shadow Riders (1982), on which shooting was due to begin in June 1982. This was announced by producer Fred Weintraub in an article published in the show-business trade paper 'Daily Variety' on 7 June 1982. Ironically, The Shadow Riders (1982), shot after 'High Road to China', aired on television in 1982 before 'High Road to China' was released in cinemas in 1983.

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As reported in the show-business trade paper 'Daily Variety' on 14 April 1982, there were three significant production setbacks on the picture during principal photography. These were: (1) lead actress Bess Armstrong contracted conjunctivitis (2) stunt coordinator Tony Smart broke his ankle and (3) an Afghan village set was destroyed by strong winds. It had cost several hundred thousand dollars to build. Production fell about two weeks behind schedule and the film's $15 million budget soared by roughly $4 million to $19 million.

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According to the website 'Le Cinema Paradiso', "initially Bristol F2B replicas were built by Vernon Ohmert from Ypsilanti, Michigan. This aircraft type appeared in the novel, but after they were built the replicas were considered dangerous to fly at high altitude and were replaced by two Stampe SV-4 biplanes (G-AZGC and G-AZGE) supplied by Bianchi Aviation Film Services."

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According to the October 30, 1978 issue of the entertainment trade paper The Hollywood Reporter, Sidney J. Furie was announced as the film's director as part of a four-picture deal with the production company Golden Harvest. He was later replaced by John Huston, who was in turn replaced by Brian G. Hutton.

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Yadran Films of Yugoslavia supplied horses, riders and various facilities as well as 35,000 extras. The production company later became a partner in the picture.

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Sandra Weintraub Roland [Sandra Weintraub] rewrote the film's original screenplay by S. Lee Pogostin. This included major changes to the overall script as well as rewriting the character of Eve Tozer as an emancipated, progressive woman.

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According to the film's official magazine, "the Nepal shooting location is actually a beautiful national park near Slapovi Kirke, and it provided a breathtaking backdrop of magnificent waterfalls for the biplane crossing scene."

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This was the fourth and final cinematic collaboration between editor John Jympson and director Brian G. Hutton. Their previous films were Where Eagles Dare (1968), Kelly's Heroes (1970) and Night Watch (1973) respectively.

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According to an article published in the July 6, 1979 issue of the entertainment trade paper Daily Variety, approximately US$500,000, or half a million dollars, was spent on three copies of a World War I-era Bristol aircraft. These were built specifically for the production by the Visionaire Company of Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA. The company reportedly built the aircraft to original specifications but with stronger frames and more powerful engines. The head of flight operations and aviation consultant on the production, British test pilot Jeffrey Hawke, supervised their construction.

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During the film's Nepal sequence, according to the film's official magazine, "the enemy ace Von Hess (Wolf Kahler) bombs the field and opens fire into the air, and a biplane dies in a blinding explosion." In fact the burning aircraft is a stunt double for 'Dorothy', not the real vintage plane that could and did fly in the film. Ironically, the real 'Dorothy', repainted red, served as Von Hess's aircraft in the spectacular dogfight against [Patrick] O'Malley [Tom Selleck] that climaxes the Nepal adventure in 'Lillian'.

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This was the first of two feature films actor Tom Selleck made for the production company Golden Harvest. The second and last was Lassiter (1984). Both films were released in consecutive years for the first time.

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This was the last produced feature film written by screenwriter S. Lee Pogostin, who co-wrote the film's screenplay.

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According to an article published in the March 24, 1983 issue of the entertainment trade paper Daily Variety, five screenwriters worked on the film's screenplay. These included Dennis Clark, Clarke Reynolds, Jonathan Hales, S. Lee Pogostin and Sandra Weintraub Roland [Sandra Weintraub].

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According to 'Le Cinema Paradiso', the actress reportedly "... dropped out of school only because she wanted to be directed by her husband [John Derek]." Bo Derek's departure from the film was announced in the February 15, 1980 issue of the entertainment trade paper Daily Variety, which also reported that the film's producers would sue Bo Derek. Executive producer Raymond Man-Wai Chow was still searching for a replacement for Bo Derek at the time of an article published in the entertainment trade paper The Hollywood Reporter on August 26, 1980. In the end, actress Bess Armstrong replaced Bo Derek.

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The film's US premiere date of March 18, 1983 was a timeframe moved up roughly three months from the planned June 10, 1983 premiere date, according to the February 23, 1983 issue of the entertainment trade paper Variety. Warner Bros. Studio cancelled the film's original summer premiere date and moved the film to early 1983 to avoid competing with four major franchise sequels, including the two James Bond films Never Say Never Again (1983) and Octopussy (1983). The latter film starred Roger Moore, who had originally been attached to and played the role of Patrick O'Malley in 'High Road to China'.

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The Charity World Premiere of 'High Road to China' (1983) was held on January 12, 1983 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Attendees included the film's stars Tom Selleck and Bess Armstrong, co-star Jack Weston, director Brian G. Hutton and producer Fred Weintraub. Other guests at the event, with tickets priced at $175 to $250 each, included Bob Hope, Carol Burnett, Ernest Borgnine, Shirley Jones, Wayne Rogers and Dina Merrill. The gala charity premiere was held to benefit the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation charity. According to the March 15, 1983 issue of the 'LA Herald-Examiner', proceeds from the gala party were estimated at approximately US$100,000. According to the December 20, 1982 issue of the entertainment trade paper The Hollywood Reporter, the film's further engagements in "several key cities" would also benefit the charity.

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According to an article published in the May 4, 1979 issue of the entertainment trade paper Daily Variety, actor-director John Huston considered playing a character in the film when he took on its direction.

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The film was shot mainly in the former Yugoslavia, the country where director Brian G. Hutton had shot Kelly's Heroes (1970) about thirteen years earlier.

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Footage for a sequence that was later cut from the film's final edit was also shot in India.

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Bess Armstrong, the film's female lead who played Eve Tozer, once described this film as "It Happened One Night (1934)".

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Tom Selleck, the film's male lead who played Patrick O'Malley, once described this film as "a magnificent film, just like Cecil B. DeMille used to make".

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The 'Charleston' dance scene performed by Bess Armstrong was shot at 4:30 in the morning after roughly 12 hours of filming. The costume for these dance scenes was a silver-coloured dress specially designed by costume designer Betsy Heimann.

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Before production, stars Tom Selleck and Bess Armstrong attended an awards dinner seated across from each other at a table. Reportedly, both leads were too shy at the time to speak to one another.

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Production company Golden Harvest approached producer Fred Weintraub to make the film, and Weintraub accepted. The two had previously worked together on Enter the Dragon (1973), which starred Bruce Lee, roughly a decade earlier.

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Director Brian G. Hutton once complained about the production, saying: "Most of 'High Road' was exteriors and we didn't have proper cover sets, we had places like garages instead; the tremendous winds outside shook everything so much that a lot of the dialogue had to be looped somehow [dialogue was recorded during post-production after filming ended]."

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The film's official publicity noted that the shooting locations in Yugoslavia, most of them standing in for different nations (Nepal, China, Turkey, India and Afghanistan), were all within a radius of about 50 miles (or roughly 80 kilometres) of the town of Opatija on the Adriatic Sea coast, now part of Croatia. It added: "In some cases you can stand in 'China' and see 'Istanbul', just like on a Hollywood backlot."

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According to the film's Official Poster Magazine, the production had to contend bravely with a herd of horses, 125 trucks and "epic communication problems" with extras who spoke a mixture of Italian, Vietnamese, Serbo-Croatian and Asian dialects among themselves, as well as with the weather, their "number one enemy".

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The British outpost in Afghanistan was named "Fort Kipling", after the author Rudyard Kipling. It was the same year that a Kipling adaptation first aired on television [see: Just So Stories (1983)].

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The region of Afghanistan in which the film is partly set is Waziristan.

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Regarding 'High Road to China' (1983) and the later Lassiter (1984), and having made back-to-back "costumers" (period pictures), star Tom Selleck once said: "If I'd planned some things ahead, maybe I wouldn't have chosen two period films in a row. But this [Lassiter (1984)] was by far the best thing that came up. I hope I'm up to it. I love the costumes and the hook."

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The part of China in which the film is partly set is Sinkiang Province, also known as Xinjiang Province.

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The amount of money Eve Tozer (Bess Armstrong) offered Patrick O'Malley (Tom Selleck) to charter both of his planes was 10,000 British pounds. The amount was raised to 100,000 pounds for this share.

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Actor Tom Selleck reconsidered making Lassiter (1984) a second time just before principal photography on that film began. There was good buzz about 'High Road to China' (1983) and Selleck was receiving a number of offers. However, he was contractually bound to make Lassiter (1984), which he had also signed for, and he remained true to his original idea and his commitment to Lassiter (1984).

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The film's end title sequence states that the production was "filmed in Yugoslavia and England".

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Eve Tozer's (Bess Armstrong) nickname was "Evie". Although the character's father is billed as Bradley Tozer (Wilford Brimley), the character is billed only as Eve in the end credits.

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According to the Internet Planes Database (IMPDb), the real and fake registration numbers of the three Stampe SV4C biplanes were as follows: (1) German aircraft with fake registration D-88 (2) Registration G-AZGC, c/n 120, with fake registration G-EOHE (3) Registration G-AZGE, c/n 576, with fake registration G-EQHE.

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This was the last feature-film appearance of Indian actor Dino Shafeek, who played Satvinda.

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In an article published in the 25 October 1979 issue of the show-business trade paper 'The Hollywood Reporter', actor Roger Moore and director Brian G. Hutton were announced as the film's male lead and its new director respectively.

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In 1984 the film was nominated for two Saturn Awards (Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films), including Best Fantasy Film and Best Actress for Bess Armstrong, but it failed to win in either category.

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In the first stage of development, the film was planned to star Roger Moore and Jacqueline Bisset, with John Huston directing. In the end, none of them worked on the picture.

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Actors Wilford Brimley and Tom Selleck later appeared together in Crossfire Trail (2001) and In & Out (1997).

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In 1984 the film was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Film but lost to Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983). The other nominees were Krull (1983), Octopussy (1983) and Never Say Never Again (1983).

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Actors Robert Morley and Brian Blessed later appeared together in War and Remembrance (1988).

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During filming in Yugoslavia, the production office's headquarters were located in Opatija, a small Adriatic coastal town that is now part of Croatia. It sat at the foot of Mount Ucka on the northwestern shore of the Gulf of Rijeka.

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The production crew of craftsmen and technicians totaled more than two hundred people, drawn from countries such as France, Italy, England and the United States as well as from the former Yugoslavia, where most of the film was shot.

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According to a blog on the website 'A Day For All Nights', the production used around a thousand extras and background artists, including those in 'the final battle scene with the Chinese warlord's troops'. According to an interview with producer Fred Weintraub in the 17-23 March 1983 issue of 'Drama-Logue' magazine, these people came from Vietnam and Yugoslavia.

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Warner Bros. replaced Twentieth Century-Fox as the film's US distributor. According to the 20 October 1982 issue of the show business trade paper 'Daily Variety', the deal with Fox was "never consummated".

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The film's director, Brian G. Hutton, said: ''There's nothing wrong with talking about imaginary things as long as you make them believe they're real.''.

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Once producer Fred Weintraub became attached to the film, he took over the production and carried out a rewrite that turned it into a more romantic action-adventure in the vein of The African Queen (1951) and King Solomon's Mines (1950). About two years after the release of 'High Road to China' in 1983, a remake of the latter came out [see: King Solomon's Mines (1985)], while a remake of the former, The African Queen (1977), premiered on television in the same year that Jon Cleary's source novel 'High Road to China' was first published, 1977.

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For this film, Bess Armstrong was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Actress in 1984, but lost to Louise Fletcher for Brainstorm (1983).

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The film was first announced in the 6 September 1978 issue of the show business trade paper 'The Hollywood Reporter' as a $12 million co-production between Paul Heller and Paul Heller Productions and Raymond Chow and Golden Harvest Productions.

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According to an article published in the 21 August 1983 issue of 'The Los Angeles Times', the film project for Lassiter (1984) began when star Tom Selleck optioned the screenplay written by screenwriter David Taylor. Selleck then presented the film to Golden Harvest, the production company with which he had co-produced 'High Road to China' (1983), and shortly afterwards the company greenlit the picture.

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The £60,000 offered for the rental of both aircraft and of Patrick O'Malley would be equivalent to about £2,340,188 in 2026. A truly extraordinary sum of money for the time.

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This was the first feature film of television actress Peggy Sirr, who played Alessa's Mother. The picture was her first, last and only appearance in a film made for cinema.

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An article published in the 13 November 1979 issue of the show business trade paper 'Daily Variety' announced that Bo Derek would be added to the cast in the female lead.

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According to a blog on the website 'A Day For All Nights', the "impressive aerial battle scenes" required the construction of "5 identical biplanes" through the hiring of "a team of professional stunt pilots" consisting of "David Perrin, Eric Muller, John Emiljanczyk and Tony Bianchi", all of whom were familiar with the quirks of vintage aircraft mechanics.

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According to an article published in the 23 February 1983 issue of the show business trade paper 'Variety', Fred Weintraub replaced Albert S. Ruddy as the film's main producer.

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The film was released in 1983, about sixty-three years after the year in which it is set, 1920.

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Jonathan Hales replaced S. Lee Pogostin as the film's screenwriter.

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It is the most recent theatrical film based on a story or novel written by source author Jon Cleary, as of August 2023.

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Literal English translations of some of the film's foreign-language titles are as follows: "Les aventuriers du bout du monde" (France and French Canada) — "Adventurers from the End of the World"; "La gran ruta hacia China" (Spain) — "The Great Route to China"; "Joka vaaroja etsii…" (Finland) — "Who Seeks Dangers…"; "Farlig vej til Kina" (Denmark) — "Dangerous Road to China"; "Os Aventureiros do Fim do Mundo" (Portugal) — "The Adventurers of the End of the World"; Russia/USSR/Soviet Union/Russian Federation — "Air Road to China"; "Los aventureros del fin del mundo" (Peru, Mexico) — "The Adventurers of the End of the World"; Japan — "High Road"; Bulgaria — "The Road to China"; "Maceracılar" (Turkey) — "The Adventurers"; "Çin'de Kurtarma" (Colombia) — "Rescue in China"; "Avventurieri ai confini del mondo" (Italy) — "Adventurers at the Edge of the World"; "Út Kínába" (Hungary) — "Road to China"; "Na Rota do Oriente" (Brazil) — "On the Eastern Route"; Greece — "Adventure in Wild China"; "Höllenjagd bis ans Ende der Welt" (Germany) — "Hell Hunt to the End of the World"; and "Inaltul davul spre Çin" (Romania) — "The High Road to China."

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About eighteen cast and crew members worked on both Lassiter (1984) and High Road to China (1983), the two period films Tom Selleck made for the production company Golden Harvest in the early to mid-1980s.

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