The High and the Mighty

Phil Harris as Ed Joseph Douglas Fowley as Alsop Doe Avedon as Miss Spalding Douglas Kennedy as Boyd, Public Relations (uncredited) Claire Trevor as May Holst Julie Bishop as Lillian Pardee Jan Sterling as Sally McKee Robert Newton as Gustave Pardee Paul Kelly as Donald Flaherty Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez as Gonzales Ann Doran as Clara Joseph Paul Fix as Frank Briscoe William H. O'Brien as Restaurant Cook Wally Brown as Lenny Wilby, navigator John Qualen as Jose Locota John Smith as Milo Buck Sidney Blackmer as Humphrey Agnew Joy Kim as Dorothy Chen William Hopper as Roy John Wayne as Dan Roman Laraine Day as Lydia Rice Robert Stack as John Sullivan David Brian as Ken Childs William Campbell as Hobie Wheeler Robert Keys as Lieutenant Mowbray George Chandler as Ben Sneed Regis Toomey as Tim Garfield William Schallert as Dispatcher John Howard as Howard Rice Karen Sharpe as Nell Buck Robert Easton as Cargo Clerk (uncredited) Walter Reed as Mr. Field (uncredited) Carl Switzer as Ensign Keim

William A. Wellman Director Dimitri Tiomkin Original Music Composer John Wayne Producer Andrew V. McLaglen Assistant Director