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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: Not Rated
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 28 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 2, 2005
- Originally Released: 1954
- Label: Paramount
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | John Wayne, Robert Stack, Claire Trevor & Laraine Day | |
Performer: | Jan Sterling, Phil Harris, Robert Newton, Sidney Blackmer, David Brian, Paul Kelly, Doe Avedon, Karen Sharpe, John Smith & Paul Fix | |
Directed by | William A. Wellman | |
Edited by | Ralph Dawson | |
Screenwriting by | Ernest K. Gann | |
Composition by | Dimitri Tiomkin | |
Produced by | Robert Fellows & John Wayne | |
Director of Photography: | Archie Stout |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
Wonderfully entertaining.
Film Threat
Rating: 2/4 --
Bloated and overlong...
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Reel Film Reviews
Rating: 3/5 --
Ocasionalmente promissor, acaba sendo prejudicado por sua narrativa lenta e por sua duração excessiva.
Cinema em Cena
Rating: C+ --
Props are given to The High and the Mighty in honor of being the first ever disaster film.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 3/5 --
The best twists that the movie can muster are a few miscalculations that the navigator makes -- he uses knots instead of miles in his fuel consumption math. Uh oh!
Filmcritic.com
A sharp, tense reading of a mushy script.
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Combustible Celluloid
Everyone aboard has so much personal baggage, it's amazing the plane can even get off the ground.
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Boulder Weekly
Description by OLDIES.com:
Soar into the skies on a thrilling airborne adventure in this meticulously restored John Wayne film classic. In one of his most memorable roles, Wayne plays Dan Roman, a veteran pilot haunted by a tragic past. Now relegated to second-in-command cockpit assignments, he finds himself scheduled 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.
Product Description:
John Wayne delivered one of his most memorable performances in THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY, a suspenseful thrill ride that presaged the disaster films of the 1970s with the story of a commercial jetliner that suffers engine trouble on a transpacific flight from Honolulu to San Francisco. With pilot John Sullivan (Robert Stack) too panic-stricken to act, it's up to second-in-command Dan Roman (Wayne) to guide the aircraft to safety--despite being traumatized by the death of his own wife and child in a plane crash years earlier. Wayne's self-doubting copilot presides over jittery crew members and passengers whose stories are told in flashbacks and fleshed out by a stellar supporting cast that includes Claire Trevor, Jan Sterling, Laraine Day, Phil Harris, Robert Newton, and Sidney Blackmer. Directed by William Wellman from a script penned by aviation writer Ernest K. Gann from his own novel of the same name, THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY garnered six Oscar nominations (including Best Director and Best Supporting Actress for both Trevor and Sterling) and an actual win for Dimitri Tiomkin's indelible, whistle-themed film score. Long held out of print by a legal dispute, this little-seen disaster classic has finally been restored and remastered to its pristine Cinemascope glory for a truly riveting tale of terror in the skies.
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Heavy Suspense and Personal Drama
Movie Lover: Hanley Harding from
Sunny Isles Beach, FL US -- November, 28, 2005
Ahem...! This is NOT a war movie. It IS, however, a really good cliffhanger about an airliner that we are not sure is gonna make it to its destination. It is an interesting introspective look at the thoughts and fears of individual passengers (and our intrepid pilot, John Wayne), as they fly uncertainly toward their fate. The musical theme was a hit, in it's day.
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