Passport to China – 1960

Columbia Pictures Corporation presents A Hammer Film Production
Pathe Distributors Ltd (UK) and Columbia Pictures (USA)
Print by Technicolor
MPAA Approved Certificate
RCA Sound Recording
Produced at Bray Studios, England
Technicolor 75 mins
Storyline
A pilot slips his plane into Red China to rescue an American girl trapped there, but when he lands he discovers that the girl has a surprise for him–she wants him to fill his plane with Chinese refugees and fly them out of the country, too.



Crew
Function | Credited | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Productions | ||
Click a link for more info | Credited | Uncredited | Total | |||||
Assistant Director | Arthur Mann | 1 | 1 | |||||
Associate Producer | Anthony Nelson-Keys | 49 | 13 Nov 1911 | 19 Mar 1985 | 73 | 41 | 41 | |
Camera Operator | Eric Besche | 46 | 20 May 1914 | 17 Apr 1983 | 68 | 2 | 2 | |
Continuity | Tilly Day | 57 | 1903 | 1994 | 91 | 13 | 1 | 14 |
Director | Michael Carreras | 33 | 21 Dec 1927 | 19 Apr 1994 | 66 | 82 | 3 | 85 |
Director of Photography | Arthur Grant BSc | 45 | 1915 | 1972 | 56 | 30 | 30 | |
Editor | Alfred Cox | 35 | 1925 | 2005 | 80 | 21 | 4 | 25 |
Hair Stylist | Frieda Steiger | 56 | 29 Dec 1903 | 19 Aug 1993 | 89 | 28 | 28 | |
Make-up Artist | Roy Ashton | 51 | 16 Apr 1909 | 10 Jan 1995 | 85 | 36 | 4 | 40 |
Producer | Michael Carreras | 33 | 21 Dec 1927 | 19 Apr 1994 | 66 | 82 | 3 | 85 |
Production Designer | Bernard Robinson | 48 | 28 Jul 1912 | 2 Mar 1970 | 57 | 46 | 3 | 49 |
Production Manager | Clifford Parkes | 33 | 1927 | 2014 | 87 | 12 | 12 | |
Screenplay | Gordon Wellesley | 54 | 8 Dec 1906 | Oct 1980 | 73 | 1 | 1 | |
Sound Recordist | Jock May | 55 | 1 Jan 1905 | 8 Jan 1991 | 86 | 30 | 1 | 31 |
Supervising Editor | James Needs | 41 | 17 Oct 1919 | 4 Feb 2003 | 83 | 110 | 1 | 111 |
Wardrobe Mistress | Molly Arbuthnot | 52 | 19 Dec 1908 | 31 Oct 2001 | 92 | 48 | 4 | 52 |
Cast
Character | Actor | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Productions | |||
Click a link for more info | Credited | Uncredited | Total | ||||||
Don Benton | Richard Basehart | 46 | 31 Aug 1914 | 17 Sep 1984 | 70 | 1 | 1 | ||
Han Po | Marne Maitland | 46 | 18 Dec 1914 | Mar 1992 | 77 | 8 | 8 | ||
Ivano Kang | Eric Pohlmann | 47 | 18 Jul 1913 | 25 Jul 1979 | 66 | 7 | 7 | ||
Jimmy | Burt Kwouk | 30 | 18 Jul 1930 | 24 May 2016 | 85 | 3 | 3 | ||
Lola Sanchez | Lisa Gastoni | 25 | 28 Jul 1935 | 87 | 1 | 1 | |||
Mao Tai Tai | Athene Seyler | 71 | 31 May 1889 | 12 Sep 1990 | 101 | 1 | 1 | ||
Orme | Alan Gifford | 49 | 11 Mar 1911 | 20 Mar 1989 | 78 | 2 | 2 | ||
Pereira | Bernard Cribbins | 31 | 29 Dec 1928 | 27 Jul 2022 | 93 | 2 | 2 | ||
Uncredited | |||||||||
Bodyguard | Milton Reid | 43 | 29 Apr 1917 | 1987 | 69 | 1 | 3 | 4 | |
Chinese Officer | Robert Lee | 47 | 1913 | 1 Dec 1986 | 73 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
Girl Croupier | Paula Li Shiu | 31 | 26 Jan 1929 | 94 | 1 | 1 | |||
Hostess | Sorata Ra Fat | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Liong Ti | Yvonne Shima | 25 | 1935 | 88 | 1 | 1 | |||
Room Boy | Jerry Lee Yen | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Sentry | Ronald Ing | 2 | 2 | ||||||
Swee Kim | Zoreen Ismail | 1 | 1 |
Production
FILMING BEGAN | 9 June 1960 | |
UK RELEASE | 26 December 1960 | |
STUDIO | Bray Studios, Down Place, Oakley Green, Berkshire, England |
Footnotes
Bert Kwouk is known for his role as Cato in the “Pink Panther” films. He made appearances in many television programmes, including a portrayal of Imperial Japanese Army Major Yamauchi in the BBC TV series “Tenko” and as Entwistle in BBC TV’s “Last of the Summer Wine”.
Details were complied viewing the actual film.
Source of viewing copy – The Hammer Graveyard Collection