DVD : The High and the Mighty (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781415708866
Format: Collector's Edition, Color, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 141570886X
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 02, 2005
Running Time: 148 minutes
Sales Rank: 9391
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: July 03, 1954
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John Wayne personally produced many of his '50s films, which is why some of them have languished in corporate limbo following his death. The High and the Mighty was one of his most popular vehicles (no pun intended). This long, necessarily sedentary drama aboard an endangered airliner is a CinemaScope bridge between 1932's Grand Hotel and 1970s disaster movies. Despite Wayne's iconic presence as a pilot--now copilot--who survived the plane crash that wiped out his family, it's an ensemble movie with an impressive cast: Robert Stack sharing the cockpit, Oscar® nominees Claire Trevor and Jan Sterling, Laraine Day, Robert Newton, Paul Kelly, John Qualen, Regis Toomey, the ubiquitous Paul Fix, and director William A. Wellman's good-luck character actor Douglas Fowley. Dimitri Tiomkin's score won the Oscar, though the fondly remembered theme song isn't as prominent as you'd expect. Wings veteran William H. Clothier shot the aerial footage. --Richard T. Jameson
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This ia the mother of modern aviation disaster films. Many of the airports, zero hour (the inspiration for "Airplane"), etc. draw from this movie. For those of us who love the golden age of aviation, this is also a great glimpse into the later part. Written by Earnest Gann who was a real airline pilot for American (and later Matson Airways). He actually flew DC-6s from California to Hawaii and so knows his stuff.
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This is an all time airplane movie classic. It doesn't get any better the the Duke slapping Robert Stack. How I've longed to do that to some of my co-pilots! Great movie.
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They say that absence makes the heart grow fonder, and certainly there's nothing like a film being unavailable for years to help build up its reputation to near-mythical status without having to worry about the film itself shattering the illusion. Case in point The High and The Mighty. The biggest hit of 1954 and one of the first major disaster movies, for a couple of decades or more rights issues and a lengthy restoration process kept the film out of circulation and alive only in the fond memory of those who saw it in their youth. It's not just less impressive than director William Wellman, co-star John Wayne and novelist/screenwriter Ernest K. Gann's previous collaboration Island in the Sky, it's not very good at all. Now that the novelty has gone with six decades of airplane-in-jeopardy movies, much of what's left is clumsily executed hokum with a low-octane cast playing a planeload of annoying and extraordinarily badly written stereotypes facing a swim home when an engine catches fire and their plane loses the extra fuel it needs to make it to dry land. While Leonard Maltin warns in his DVD introduction that it's "a film very much of it's time," even in 1954 this was remarkably unsubtle stuff and it really should be a lot better than it is: money has been spent and there's a lot of talent in the credits, with Wellman and Gann's own aviation experience promising much more than an overlong soap opera in the sky with dialogue and characterisation so risible that even Irwin Allen ... Read More
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Wayne, that incredible cast, brilliant color photography, and Tiomkin's haunting theme music (unfortunately the lyrics of the title song aren't sung during the film, that would come later when the great Johnny Desmond recorded it as a hit single) make this one of the greatest films of all. When Tiomkin's theme blasts over the opening credits against a blue sky background, you know it will be a great plane ride. 50s Boomers will remember that in the "I Love Lucy" episode where Lucy meets Wayne, Lucy as well expresses her admiration for this epic. She tells Wayne, "When your engine conked out [in the film], I did, too!" John is great as that old pelican, "Whistlin' Dan" who saves the plane, and the day, when copilot Robert Stack freezes up. Along with "the Alamo," "Big Jim McLain", "Hondo," and "Pittsburgh," one of my favorite Wayne films.
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John Wayne without the horse and cowboy boots---but great just the same. Keeps you bolted to your seat. Good watching. Glad I bought it so I can watch it again and again. Another Wayne classic.
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starring: John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Laraine Day, Robert Stack, Jan Sterling
directed by: William A. Wellman
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781415708866
Format: Collector's Edition, Color, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 141570886X
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 02, 2005
Running Time: 148 minutes
Sales Rank: 9391
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: July 03, 1954
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