The High and the Mighty (1954) |
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| Director(s) | William A. Wellman |
| Producer(s) | John Wayne (uncredited), Robert Fellows (uncredited) |
| Top Genres | Action, Adventure, Drama |
| Top Topics | Aviation |
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John Wayne(as Dan Roman)
The High and the Mighty
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1954
The High and the Mighty
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1954
John Wayne
(as Dan Roman)
Claire Trevor(as May Holst)
The High and the Mighty
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1954
The High and the Mighty
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1954
Claire Trevor
(as May Holst)
Laraine Day(as Lydia Rice)
The High and the Mighty
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The High and the Mighty
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Laraine Day
(as Lydia Rice)
Robert Stack(as John Sullivan)
The High and the Mighty
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The High and the Mighty
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Robert Stack
(as John Sullivan)
Jan Sterling(as Sally McKee)
The High and the Mighty
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1954
The High and the Mighty
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1954
Jan Sterling
(as Sally McKee)
Phil Harris(as Ed Joseph)
The High and the Mighty
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The High and the Mighty
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1954
Phil Harris
(as Ed Joseph)
Robert Newton(as Gustave Pardee)
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The High and the Mighty
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1954
Robert Newton
(as Gustave Pardee)
David Brian(as Ken Childs)
The High and the Mighty
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The High and the Mighty
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1954
David Brian
(as Ken Childs)
The High and the Mighty Overview:
The High and the Mighty (1954) was a Action - Adventure Film directed by William A. Wellman and produced by John Wayne and Robert Fellows.
Academy Awards 1954 --- Ceremony Number 27 (source: AMPAS)
| Award | Recipient | Result |
| Best Supporting Actress | Jan Sterling | Nominated |
| Best Supporting Actress | Claire Trevor | Nominated |
| Best Director | William A. Wellman | Nominated |
| Best Film Editing | Ralph Dawson | Nominated |
| Best Music - Scoring | Dimitri Tiomkin | Won |
| Best Music - Song | Music by Dimitri Tiomkin; Lyrics by Ned Washington | Nominated |
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The High and the Mighty Quotes:
Ken Childs:
Keep talking, please keep talking; I'm frightened...
May Holst: Talking? Honey, you dont know what you're asking. Tell you a good joke on me: You know, I always dreaded the idea of becoming an old woman. And the way things look now, I won't have to worry about it any more. You know, I haven't been whistled at in years, and the idea of growing roses for the rest of my life is really beginning to haunt me. There oughta be a home for dames like me. Yup - we shoulda organized. You know, a house somewhere with no mirror in it, far away where we never have to look at a young girl. They have homes for unmarried mothers but everybody forgets about the girls who - who never quite managed to make things legal. I think I could start one! Yeah - I could call it the May Holst Home for Broken-Down Broads. I kind of like that, don't you?
May Holst: Talking? Honey, you dont know what you're asking. Tell you a good joke on me: You know, I always dreaded the idea of becoming an old woman. And the way things look now, I won't have to worry about it any more. You know, I haven't been whistled at in years, and the idea of growing roses for the rest of my life is really beginning to haunt me. There oughta be a home for dames like me. Yup - we shoulda organized. You know, a house somewhere with no mirror in it, far away where we never have to look at a young girl. They have homes for unmarried mothers but everybody forgets about the girls who - who never quite managed to make things legal. I think I could start one! Yeah - I could call it the May Holst Home for Broken-Down Broads. I kind of like that, don't you?
[first lines]
Ben Sneed: Hey fella, ain't you Dan Roman?
Dan Roman: Yeah.
Ben Sneed: I heard you whistlin' and I said to myself only one guy does that just so.
Ben Sneed: Hey fella, ain't you Dan Roman?
Dan Roman: Yeah.
Ben Sneed: I heard you whistlin' and I said to myself only one guy does that just so.
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The actual DC-4 aircraft used to film the passenger boarding and flying sequences was a former military surplus Douglas C-54A-10-DC built in 1944. When filmed, the aircraft (then registered as N4726V) was being operated by Transocean Airlines for whom the film's author, Ernest K. Gann, had flown these planes over the Hawaii-California routes. Known as the "The Argentine Queen," before being acquired by Transocean in 1953 it had been the personal aircraft of Argentine dictator Juan Domingo Perón. Ironically, a little more than a decade after appearing in the film this aircraft and the nine persons on board were lost on March 28, 1964, when the plane was forced to ditch in the Pacific Ocean about 700 miles west of San Francisco. The plane was about eight hours into a charter flight from Honolulu to Los Angeles when the pilot reported a serious fire in engine #2. The Coast Guard searched for the aircraft for five days but no trace of it was ever found.
Average Shot Length (ASL) = 11 seconds
Spencer Tracy was originally cast as Dan Roman. He backed out of the film, however, after hearing several negative comments about how strict a disciplinarian director William A. Wellman was.
John Wayne's first film in CinemaScope.
Towards the end of the movie, when Robert Stack tells John Wayne to whistle something (because he works better with music), the tune that John Wayne whistles is, "I'm a Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech".