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The High and the Mighty

The 2-Year Best-Seller Sensation! The Year's Greatest Cast!

1954 · NR · 2h 27m

Directed by William A. Wellman

5.9

TMDB audience score
91 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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 that takes a terrifying turn when disaster strikes high above the Pacific Ocean after the point of no return.

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Cast

  • John Wayne
    Dan Roman

  • Claire Trevor
    May Holst

  • Laraine Day
    Lydia Rice

  • Robert Stack
    John Sullivan

  • Jan Sterling
    Sally McKee

  • Phil Harris
    Ed Joseph

  • Robert Newton
    Gustave Pardee

  • David Brian
    Ken Childs

  • Paul Kelly
    Donald Flaherty

  • Sidney Blackmer
    Humphrey Agnew

  • Julie Bishop
    Lillian Pardee

  • Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez
    Gonzales

  • John Howard
    Howard Rice

  • Wally Brown
    Lenny Wilby, navigator

  • William Campbell
    Hobie Wheeler

  • Ann Doran
    Clara Joseph

  • John Qualen
    Jose Locota

  • Paul Fix
    Frank Briscoe