High Road to China | Tom Selleck, Bess Armstrong | Contact MGM and Request HRTC on DVD

High Road to China | Tom Selleck, Bess Armstrong | Great Movie - Why oh Why no DVD?!?!?

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High Road to China

	High Road to China Tom Selleck, Bess Armstrong Warner Home Video, 1992 average customer review:based on 85 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Contact MGM and Request HRTC on DVD

I read all 61 reviews to learn as much as I could about this fine film MISSING from my DVD collection. Then I went to my collection and read the back of the "Quigley..." jacket. I then Googled MGM Home Video, and went to their site. I scrolled to the bottom of the first page and clicked on "Help/Contact/FAQ." This took me to a screen with a pull-down menu from which I selected "MGM DVD," entered my email address, and politely asked them to explain themselves, check these 60 plus reviews as evidence that they should release HRTC in DVD.

I suggest you vote yes on this "review" (I did say it was a "fine film")in the hopes that 100% "Yes" votes will get this to the top of the review heap where it can be seen. Then I suggest that you use the instructions above to contact MGM. Finally, I suggest that everyone buy this film from Amazon when it comes out as thanks for their strong support of end-viewer reviews. God Bless.

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Great Movie - Why oh Why no DVD?!?!?

This is a great movie, one that I've absolutely worn out my old VHS tape on. Can someone at the studio please explain why they haven't released this on DVD? If you are listening, please release it! Very good acting, a wonderful music score, adventure, romance, great scenery...

Great movie!!! PUT IT ON DVD NOW!!!

This is a fantastic movie that made me fall in love with Bess Armstrong and appreciate Tom Selleck as an actor. It's adventuresome, fun, and thrilling. I too wore out a VHS copy of this movie. I was really hoping they were going to do a sequel, afterall, they had to get out of China.

Picture Bess Armstrong getting nabbed into a Chinese brothel??? Imagine Tom Selleck having to save her from inept slavers.

May the powers to be get this movie on DVD!!!

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One of his best

This is a lost treasure. Tom Selleck & Bess Armstrong are at their best in this movie! They REALLY need to reissue it, it's sure to be a hit this time, more so than before.

"No More Heroes? So Long Boys!"

Tom Selleck finally got his missed opportunity to play Indiana Jones in this fine comedy-adventure also starring Bess Armstrong. Unfortunately, HIGH ROAD TO CHINA was released in the long shadow of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK and has always been considered derivative, fogging the fact that this film is an example of quality entertainment all on its own.

In HIGH ROAD TO CHINA, set in the early 1920s, Armstrong plays Eve Tozer, the spoiled flapper daughter of a China trader who has gone missing in that vast land. Tozer leaves Paris, where she has been gorging at the moveable feast, and sets out east to find her father. She hires Selleck, a swashbuckling World War I ace, to fly her into the heart of the Orient.

Along the way, the byplay between them is acidic and wildly funny. Armstrong is cute, sharp and sassy (and looks great in flying breeches); Selleck plays it as the intelligent lummox, the perfect foil for her cutting wit.

If the ending is a bit over-the-top, it is no more over-the-top than anything RAIDERS and its sequels presented, albeit not as deftly handled. Still, HIGH ROAD TO CHINA is a sleeper that should not be missed.

Why this film (theatrically released in 1983) had to wait until 2000 for an already outdated VHS release and still hasn't been transferred to DVD is an open question. One prior reviewer claims that Selleck's conservative politics are to blame; be that as it may, had HIGH ROAD TO CHINA been the moneymaking mega-hit it should have been, Selleck's NRA membership would not have mattered. This very enjoyable film simply got lost among the "Jones Clones" of the era. Too bad, because, unlike most, it deserves your attention.

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