The High and the Mighty (1954)
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.
- Released
- 1954-07-03
- Genres
- Adventure, Drama
- Runtime
- 147 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Ernest K. Gann, William A. Wellman
- TMDB rating
- 5.9/10 from 91 votes
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