Passport to China (1961)
- Original title
- Visa to Canton
- Directed by
- Michael Carreras
- Genre
- adventure film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 15m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 5.0 of 10 from 14 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A pilot takes on a mission to get a woman out of China. The story follows his attempts and the tricky situations he faces.
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What happens
Passport to China (released in the U.K. as Visa to Canton) is a 1960 British adventure spy film released by Columbia Pictures; directed by Michael Carreras and starring Richard Basehart, Lisa Gastoni, Eric Pohlmann and Bernard Cribbins. The screenplay, which concerns a pilot who tries to rescue a woman from China, was based on a story by Gordon Wellesley and made by Swallow Productions and Hammer Films. It was made as a pilot for a planned BBC TV series, but ended up being released as a theatrical feature instead after Hammer's earlier Tales of Frankenstein TV pilot fared so poorly in the US. Bernard Robinson was production designer, Thomas Goswell and Don Mingaye were the art directors, Roy Ashton did makeup, and Dominic Fulford and Arthur Mann were the assistant directors. Filming went on from 9 June until 1 July 1960. It was trade shown on 20 November 1960, and released in the UK (in Technicolor) on 26 December 1960. It was theatrically released in the US only in black-and-white in February 1961. Hammer historian Tom Johnson remarked that it did not have "the feel" of a Hammer production in general. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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