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...declared dead, and the company fortune will devolve upon daddy's evil partner Bentik (Robert Morlev) The prospect propels her into a harrowing two-week adventure in which hundreds of extras die and she herself narrowly escapes a dozen terrible ends. Along for the ride is Patrick O'Malley (Tom Selleck) the World War I vet who gives flying lessons when not seducing hall the local female population, and his trusty mechanic. Stiuts Jack Weston) Eve needs him and his two biplanes to track down eccentric papa...
...Cleary, on whose book the movie is based, evidently enjoyed It Happened One Night, but director Hutton is not Frank Capra any more than Selleck and Armstrong are Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert 'Tom "Magnum P.I." Sellect, sex symbol for the '80s, performs convincingly as O'Malley. conveying more emotion than one might think possible with his macho, mustachioed, chiselled face. Armstrong does not fare quite so well, occasionally dredging up memories of high-school drama productions...
...with a heart of gold never grow beyond stereotypes. Eve can that only dance and break hearts, but she can stunt-fly and shoot as well as the war veteran. (Mercifully, no one ever actually says, "Just like a man!," but it's the insinuation that counts.) O'Malley, for his part, can not only drink and seduce woman, but he can stunt-fly and shoot almost as well as Eve. As the mercenary-who's-really-a-nice-gay-in-the-end, he has a long pedigree in cinema history. If his propellers could only zoom him into hyperspace...
...MALLEY'S PLANES only make it as for as Asia. The first stop is Afghanistan, Eve's father's last known destination. In the wilds of Afghanistan our trio encounters its first foreign culture, a rebel horde intent on driving out the British. (This, incidentally, makes the action hard to date precisely: Afghanistan won its independence in 1919, but the Charleston did not become popular overseas until the mid-20's.) Typical barbarians, they sing ethnic songs, dance wildly, offer to buy Eve, and delight in killing Enlishmen.(Never mind that the Afghans were nationalists fighting for liberation.) No tears...
...abroad when it simply pays for espionage, often at a surprisingly low rate. U.S. counterintelligence experts are concerned because a growing number of Americans with little or no political convictions have taken the initiative to provide the Soviets with information purely for monetary gain. Says the FBI's O'Malley: "The KGB manual says that Americans can be bought, and unfortunately it is often true, especially in difficult economic times." A roundup of recent rogues...