The High and the Mighty

The 2-Year Best-Seller Sensation! The Year's Greatest Cast!

147 mins
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.

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

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

Joy Kim

Dorothy Chen

Michael Wellman

Toby Fields

Regis Toomey

Tim Garfield

Robert Keys

Lieutenant Mowbray

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

Alfred Ybarra

Art Direction

Ernest K. Gann

Screenplay

Dimitri Tiomkin

Original Music Composer

Archie Stout

Director of Photography

John Wayne

Producer

Nate H. Edwards

Production Manager

Loren Cosand

Makeup Artist

Robert A. Mattey

Special Effects

Ralph S. Hurst

Set Decoration

Margaret Donovan

Hairstylist

John K. Kean

Sound Recordist

William H. Clothier

Aerial Camera

Andrew V. McLaglen

Assistant Director

Joseph La Bella

Property Master

Web Overlander

Makeup Artist

Gwen Wakeling

Costume Design

Sam Freedle

Script Supervisor

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