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Film / 1954
The High and the Mighty
Directed by
William A. Wellman
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 WayneDan Roman
Claire TrevorMay Holst
Laraine DayLydia Rice
Robert StackJohn Sullivan
Jan SterlingSally McKee
Phil HarrisEd Joseph
Robert NewtonGustave Pardee
David BrianKen Childs
Paul KellyDonald Flaherty
Sidney BlackmerHumphrey Agnew
Julie BishopLillian Pardee
Pedro Gonzalez GonzalezGonzales
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John HowardHoward Rice
Wally BrownLenny Wilby, navigator
William CampbellHobie Wheeler
Ann DoranClara Joseph
John QualenJose Locota
Paul FixFrank Briscoe
George ChandlerBen Sneed
Joy KimDorothy Chen
Michael WellmanToby Fields
Douglas FowleyAlsop
Regis ToomeyTim Garfield
Robert KeysLieutenant Mowbray
William HopperRoy
William SchallertDispatcher
Julie MitchumSusie Wilby
Doe AvedonMiss Spalding
Karen SharpeNell Buck
John SmithMilo Buck
Robert EastonCargo Clerk (uncredited)
Douglas KennedyBoyd, Public Relations (uncredited)
Walter ReedMr. Field (uncredited)
Carl SwitzerEnsign Keim
William H. O'BrienRestaurant Cook
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