Directed by:
William A. WellmanScreenplay:
Ernest K. GannCinematography:
Archie StoutComposer:
Dimitri TiomkinCast:
John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Laraine Day, Robert Stack, Jan Sterling, Phil Harris, Robert Newton, David Brian, Paul Kelly, Sidney Blackmer, Julie Bishop (more)VOD (1)
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John Wayne delivered one of his most memorable performances in THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY, a suspenseful thrill ride that presaged the disaster films of the 1970s with the story of a commercial jetliner that suffers engine trouble on a transpacific flight from Honolulu to San Francisco. With pilot John Sullivan (Robert Stack) too panic-stricken to act, it's up to second-in-command Dan Roman (Wayne) to guide the aircraft to safety--despite being traumatized by the death of his own wife and child in a plane crash years earlier. Wayne's self-doubting copilot presides over jittery crew members and passengers whose stories are told in flashbacks and fleshed out by a stellar supporting cast. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
John Wayne
USA
Best movies:
The Longest Day (1962)
El Dorado (1966)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
Claire Trevor
USA
Best movies:
The Mountain (1956)
Texas (1941)
Stagecoach (1939)
Laraine Day
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Tycoon (1947)
Robert Stack
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Flying High! (1980)
Jan Sterling
USA
Best movies:
Ace in the Hole (1951)
Caged (1950)
Johnny Belinda (1948)
Phil Harris
USA
Best movies:
The Jungle Book (1967)
The AristoCats (1970)
Robin Hood (1973)
Robert Newton
UK
Best movies:
David Brian
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
'G' Men (1935)
Springfield Rifle (1952)
Paul Kelly
USA
Best movies:
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Springfield Rifle (1952)
San Antonio (1945)
Sidney Blackmer
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Love Crazy (1941)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Julie Bishop
USA
Best movies:
Rhapsody in Blue (1945)
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Westward the Women (1951)
John Howard
USA
Best movies:
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Lost Horizon (1937)
The Invisible Woman (1940)
Wally Brown
USA
Best movies:
Notorious (1946)
Dodge City (1939)
The Mouse That Roared (1959)
William Campbell
USA
Best movies:
The People Against O'Hara (1951)
Escape from Fort Bravo (1953)
The Breaking Point (1950)
Ann Doran
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Holiday (1938)
John Qualen
Canada
Best movies:
A Patch of Blue (1965)
Casablanca (1942)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Paul Fix
USA
Best movies:
After the Thin Man (1936)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Scarface (1932)
George Chandler
USA
Best movies:
Griffin and Phoenix: A Love Story (1976) (TV movie)
Edison, the Man (1940)
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Douglas Fowley
USA
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
Regis Toomey
USA
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
The People Against O'Hara (1951)
The Big Sleep (1946)