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 - one that takes a terrifying suspense-building turn when disaster strikes high above the Pacific Ocean at the point of no return.

Action Adventure Drama Thriller

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)

Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez

(Gonzales)

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)

George Chandler

(Ben Sneed)

Joy Kim

(Dorothy Chen)

Michael Wellman

(Toby Fields)

Douglas Fowley

(Alsop)

Regis Toomey

(Tim Garfield)

Robert Keys

(Lieutenant Mowbray)

William Hopper

(Roy)

William Schallert

(Dispatcher)

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)