Movie
The High and the Mighty
Overview
Dan Roman is a veteran pilot haunted by a tragic past. Now relegated to second-in-command cockpit assignments he finds himself on a routine Honolulu-to-San Francisco flight - one that takes a terrifying suspense-building turn when disaster strikes high above the Pacific Ocean at the point of no return.
Details
- Release date
- 1954-07-03
- Runtime
- 147 min
- Genres
- Adventure, Drama, Thriller
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Wayne-Fellows Productions, Warner Bros. Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- John Wayne as Dan Roman
- Claire Trevor as May Holst
- Laraine Day as Lydia Rice
- Robert Stack as John Sullivan
- Jan Sterling as Sally McKee
- Phil Harris as Ed Joseph
- Robert Newton as Gustave Pardee
- David Brian as Ken Childs
- Paul Kelly as Donald Flaherty
- Sidney Blackmer as Humphrey Agnew
- Julie Bishop as Lillian Pardee
- Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez as Gonzales
Crew
- William A. Wellman - Director
- Ernest K. Gann - Screenplay
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