The High and the Mighty Summary, Review, Cast & Crew

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The High and the Mighty
Running Time: 147 min.
Produced By: / Warner Brothers / Wayne-Fellows Productions

Summary:
For The High and the Mighty, director William Wellman made a point of using Cinemascope to heighten the dramatic content of a confined screen space -- in this instance, the cockpit of a plane in flight. Copilot Dan Roman (John Wayne) seems a lot more... Full Summary >>

Cast and Crew:
John Wayne (Dan Roman)
Claire Trevor (May Holst)
Laraine Day (Lydia Rice)
Robert Stack (Sullivan)
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Review:
The High and the Mighty has aged well -- seeing it anew in 2005, twenty-some years after it was last shown publicly, it's possible to pick out scenes and shots that might be cut or shortened, but ultimately it's not much more than a few minutes longe ... Continue >>