6 thoughts on “ The High And The Mighty ”

1. The High and the Mighty () U 07/03/ (US) Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller 2h 27m User Score. Play Trailer; The 2-Year Best-Seller Sensation! The Year's Greatest Cast! 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.

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2. The High and the Mighty () cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.

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3. The High and the Mighty was one of his most popular vehicles (no pun intended). This long, necessarily sedentary drama aboard an endangered airliner is a CinemaScope bridge between 's Grand Hotel and s disaster movies. Despite Wayne's iconic presence as a pilot--now copilot--who survived the plane crash that wiped out his family, it's /10().

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4. About The High and the Mighty "The High and the Mighty" is a song by Ned Washington and Dimitri Tiomkin from the film of the same name. At the start of the film's production late in , veteran film composer and musician Dimitri Tiomkin was commissioned to write the film's score.

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5. The High and the Mighty shapes up as a diverting but extremely corny flying soap opera about an airliner overflowing with 'dramatic' characters. Wayne is excellent and stands out simply by playing a level-headed guy amid a pack of egotists, worry warts and malcontents; Ernest K. Gann's dreadful script gets the flying specifics right but drags in every lame characterization known to bad drama except a .

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6. A super-slick production directed by the legendary William Wellman, The High and the Mighty has been out of circulation for many years, and it makes a triumphant DVD debut in a sparkling transfer with surround-sound presentation. Maltin -- a human encyclopedia of vintage-movie knowledge -- joins Wellman's son and several surviving cast members in a chatty commentary peppered with fascinating /5(6).

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