More interesting as a piece of social history than as an actually entertaining movie. Gregory Peck is a scientist who goes behind the bamboo curtain to play ping pong with Chairman Mao. The commies have an enzyme to make disease free food which would seem to be a Good Thing - he wants to make sure they don't hog it or something.
Anne Heywood has a blink and miss it role as a gal in love with Peck. There's actually a lot of screentime for Chinese characters, more than usual - people like Keye Luke and Burt Kwouk pop up. Arthur Hiller is a nasty army officer with a shade over one eye glass.
It's not very exciting. Peck doesn't do much that's thrilling. He sleeps with a Chinese woman which is groovy I suppose. Decent chase in the end. Uninspiring Taiwan scenery standing in for China - the Hong Kong sequences are more visually interesting.
That ping pong scene does get point for bizzareness.
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