The High and the Mighty
The 2-Year Best-Seller Sensation! The Year's Greatest Cast!
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 that takes a terrifying turn when disaster strikes high above the Pacific Ocean after the point of no return.
Director William A. Wellman
Trailer
Cast
John Wayne
Dan Roman
Robert Stack
John Sullivan
Laraine Day
Lydia Rice
David Brian
Ken Childs
Sidney Blackmer
Humphrey Agnew
Joy Kim
Dorothy Chen
Karen Sharpe
Nell Buck
John Howard
Howard Rice
Robert Keys
Lieutenant Mowbray
John Smith
Milo Buck
Robert Easton
Cargo Clerk (uncredited)
Walter Reed
Mr. Field (uncredited)
Carl Switzer
Ensign Keim
Claire Trevor
May Holst
Wally Brown
Lenny Wilby, navigator
John Qualen
Jose Locota
William Hopper
Roy
William Schallert
Dispatcher
Doe Avedon
Miss Spalding
Douglas Kennedy
Boyd, Public Relations (uncredited)
Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez
Gonzales
Ann Doran
Clara Joseph
Paul Fix
Frank Briscoe
George Chandler
Ben Sneed
Regis Toomey
Tim Garfield
Phil Harris
Ed Joseph
Paul Kelly
Donald Flaherty
William Campbell
Hobie Wheeler
Jan Sterling
Sally McKee
Robert Newton
Gustave Pardee
Julie Bishop
Lillian Pardee
Douglas Fowley
Alsop
William H. O'Brien
Restaurant Cook