The High and the Mighty
03/07/1954
2h 27m

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 - one that takes a terrifying suspense-building turn when disaster strikes high above the Pacific Ocean at the point of no return.
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


George Chandler
Ben Sneed


Joy Kim
Dorothy Chen
Michael Wellman
Toby Fields


Douglas Fowley
Alsop


Regis Toomey
Tim Garfield


Robert Keys
Lieutenant Mowbray


William Hopper
Roy


William Schallert
Dispatcher
Julie Mitchum
Susie Wilby


Doe Avedon
Miss Spalding


Karen Sharpe
Nell Buck


John Smith
Milo Buck


Robert Easton
Cargo Clerk (uncredited)


Douglas Kennedy
Boyd, Public Relations (uncredited)


Walter Reed
Mr. Field (uncredited)


Carl Switzer
Ensign Keim


William H. O'Brien
Restaurant Cook
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