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Yesterday 5:39 pm  #1


Pulp-ish Adventure films of the '80s

Thinking about a possible Dicey Tales campaign in the near future. For inspiration, I'm watching a couple of old favorite films tonight: LASSITER and HIGH ROAD TO CHINA.

For those unfamiliar, LASSITER is about a gentleman thief who is forced to break into the German embassy in 1939 London to steal a fortune in diamonds. Starring Tom Selleck, Jane Seymour, Lauren Hutton, and Bob Hoskins. Probably my favorite Selleck film. I'm a sucker for a heist.

HIGH ROAD TO CHINA is about a WWI Flying Ace who is barnstorming around Post-War Europe. He's hired by an heiress to help her find her missing father in the Far East before his business partner can have him declared legally dead and take over the company fortune. Which is what's letting her carouse around Europe in the lap of luxury. Selleck is the star of this one too, with Bess Armstrong as the heiress. Less of a rollicking adventure than Raiders, which I think a lot of people were expecting. No supernatural elements. Just an old-style aviation adventure.
 


-- Paul
 

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