High Road to China - DVR alert!
Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2016 5:16 am
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That was EXACTLY how I remembered it having seen it the same way. Rewatching it eased the harshness of my memories.Little Garwood wrote:I saw the film first run in the theater and did not care for it at all, despite the 1930s adventure potential of the thing. Watching High Road to China (or, as Leonard Maltin referred to it, "The Low Road to Entertainment" ) is like watching the Selleck screaming scenes and screaming outtakes from S3's "Flashback" for two hours.
Weren't his planes named "Dorian" and "Lillian" or something? (No Zeus and Apollo jokes, please)ConchRepublican wrote:That was EXACTLY how I remembered it having seen it the same way. Rewatching it eased the harshness of my memories.Little Garwood wrote:I saw the film first run in the theater and did not care for it at all, despite the 1930s adventure potential of the thing. Watching High Road to China (or, as Leonard Maltin referred to it, "The Low Road to Entertainment" ) is like watching the Selleck screaming scenes and screaming outtakes from S3's "Flashback" for two hours.
Close! Dorothy and Lillian. As for grating, on the rewatch I found it was Bess Armstrong who to me was the annoying one.Little Garwood wrote:Weren't his planes named "Dorian" and "Lillian" or something? (No Zeus and Apollo jokes, please)ConchRepublican wrote:That was EXACTLY how I remembered it having seen it the same way. Rewatching it eased the harshness of my memories.Little Garwood wrote:I saw the film first run in the theater and did not care for it at all, despite the 1930s adventure potential of the thing. Watching High Road to China (or, as Leonard Maltin referred to it, "The Low Road to Entertainment" ) is like watching the Selleck screaming scenes and screaming outtakes from S3's "Flashback" for two hours.
The movie can at least boast a music score by John Barry, so it would be worth seeing (hearing) it for that, and to see if Tom's performance isn't as grating as it seemed in that initial viewing.
Great review. I really like High Road to China, but I agree with the reviewer about the ending. How the heck were they supposed to get out of China?? It needed some kind of denouement.Check out this review . . .
http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/adventu ... ure-movies