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Passport to China (a.k.a. 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.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 22 relations: Adventure film, Alan Gifford, Arthur Grant (cinematographer), Athene Seyler, Bernard Cribbins, Burt Kwouk, China, Cold War, Columbia Pictures, Communism, Edwin Astley, Eric Pohlmann, Gordon Wellesley, Hammer Film Productions, Hong Kong, James Needs, Lisa Gastoni, Marne Maitland, Michael Carreras, Milton Reid, Richard Basehart, Spy film.

  2. 1960s adventure films
  3. Films scored by Edwin Astley

Adventure film

An adventure film is a genre of film.

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Alan Gifford

Alan Gifford (born John Lennox; March 11, 1911 – March 20, 1989) was an American-born actor from Taunton, Massachusetts, who worked mainly in the UK, where he died in Blairgowrie, Scotland at age 78.

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Arthur Grant (cinematographer)

Arthur Grant B.S.C. (1915–1972) was a British cinematographer.

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Athene Seyler

Athene Seyler, CBE (31 May 188912 September 1990) was an English actress.

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Bernard Cribbins

Bernard Joseph Cribbins (29 December 1928 – 27 July 2022) was an English actor and singer whose career spanned over eight decades.

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Burt Kwouk

Herbert Tsangtse Kwouk, (Kwouk;;; 18 July 1930 – 24 May 2016) was a British actor.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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Cold War

The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., commonly known as Columbia Pictures or simply Columbia, is an American film production and distribution company that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures, which is one of the Big Five studios and a subsidiary of the multinational conglomerate Sony Group Corporation.

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Communism

Communism (from Latin label) is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered around common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products to everyone in the society based on need.

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Edwin Astley

Edwin Thomas "Ted" Astley (12 April 1922 – 19 May 1998) was a British composer.

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Eric Pohlmann

Eric Pohlmann (Erich Pohlmann; born Erich Pollak; 18 July 1913 – 25 July 1979) was an Austrian theatre, film and television character actor who worked mostly in the United Kingdom.

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Gordon Wellesley

Gordon Wong Wellesley (8 December 1894 – 1980) was an Australian-born screenwriter and writer of Chinese descent.

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Hammer Film Productions

Hammer Film Productions Ltd. is a British film production company based in London.

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.

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James Needs

James Needs (17 October 1919 – 4 February 2003) was a British film editor associated with his work at Hammer Film Productions.

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Lisa Gastoni

Lisa Gastoni (born 28 July 1935) is an Italian film actress.

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Marne Maitland

James Marne Kumar Maitland (18 December 1914 – 24 August 1991) was an Anglo-Indian character actor in films and television programmes.

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Michael Carreras

Michael Henry Carreras (21 December 1927 – 19 April 1994) was a British film producer and director.

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Milton Reid

Milton Rutherford Reid (29 April 1917 – c. 1987) was a British-Indian actor and professional wrestler.

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Richard Basehart

John Richard Basehart (August 31, 1914 – September 17, 1984) was an American actor.

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Spy film

The spy film, also known as the spy thriller, is a genre of film that deals with the subject of fictional espionage, either in a realistic way (such as the adaptations of John le Carré) or as a basis for fantasy (such as many James Bond films).

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See also

1960s adventure films

Films scored by Edwin Astley

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passport_to_China

Also known as Visa to Canton.