Passport to China

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.

Production Details

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

Filming Began: 2nd June 1960
UK Release: 26th December 1960

Studio:
Bray Studios, Down Place, Oakley Green, Berkshire

Stills from film

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Cast & Crew

Cast – Verified complete

Red = Uncredited


Crew	Name	Age at Release	Birth		Death	Age	Hammer Credits	Uncredited	Total Hammer
Art Director	Thomas Goswell	69	28 Mar 1891		1982	90	1	6	7
Assistant Director	Arthur Mann						1		1
Associate Producer	https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/anthony-nelson-keys/#	49	13 Nov 1911		19 Mar 1985	73	42		42
Camera Operator	Eric Besche	46	20 May 1914		17 Apr 1983	68	2		2
Continuity	Tilly Day	57	1903		1994	91	14	1	15
Director	https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/michael-carreras/#	33	21 Dec 1927		19 Apr 1994	66	86	9	95
Director of Photography	https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/arthur-grant/#	45	1915		1972	57	33		33
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	https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/roy-ashton/#	51	16 Apr 1909		10 Jan 1995	85	36	4	40
Music	Edwin Astley	38	12 Apr 1922		19 May 1998	76	4		4
Producer	https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/michael-carreras/#	33	21 Dec 1927		19 Apr 1994	66	86	9	95
Production Designer	https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/bernard-robinson/#	48	28 Jul 1912		2 Mar 1970	57	45	4	49
Production Manager	Clifford Parkes	32	10 Jul 1928		20 Nov 2014	87	12		12
Screenplay	Gordon Wellesley	54	8 Dec 1906		Oct 1980	73	1		1
Sound Recordist	https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/jock-may/#	55	1905		8 Jan 1991	86	30	1	31
Supervising Editor	https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/james-needs/#	41	17 Oct 1919		4 Feb 2003	83	111	1	112
Wardrobe Mistress	https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/molly-arbuthnot/#	52	19 Dec 1908		31 Oct 2001	92	48	5	53

Cast	Name	Age at Release	Birth		Death	Age	Hammer Credits	Uncredited	Total Hammer
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
Don Benton	Richard Basehart	46	31 Aug 1914		17 Sep 1984	70	1		1
Girl Croupier	Paula Li Shiu	31	26 Jan 1929	26.01.1929		95		1	1
Han Po	https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/marne-maitland/#	46	18 Dec 1914		Mar 1992	77	9		9
Hostess	Sorata Ra Fat							1	1
Inspector Taylor	Hedger Wallace	33	14 Oct 1927		30 Jan 2000	72	1	1	2
Ivano Kang	https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/eric-pohlmann/#	47	18 Jul 1913		25 Jul 1979	66	7		7
Jimmy	Burt Kwouk	30	18 Jul 1930		24 May 2016	85	4		4
Liong Ti	Yvonne Shima	25	1935		1 Sep 2023	88		1	1
Lola Sanchez	Lisa Gastoni	25	28 Jul 1935	28.07.1935		89	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
Room Boy	Jerry Lee Yen							1	1
Sam Johnson	Kevin Scott	32	10 Dec 1928	10.12.1928		95	1		1
Sentry	Ronald Ing							2	2
Swee Kim	Zoreen Ismail							1	1

Original Poster

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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.

1960 BBFC Cert. “U”

Production Details

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Cast & Crew

Original Poster

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