The High and the Mighty is a 1954 CinemaScope drama adventure film with a star-laden ensemble cast released through Warner Brothers. The film starred and was co-produced by John Wayne, directed by William A. Wellman, and written by Ernest K. Gann who was also the author of the novel on which the film was based. Composer Dimitri Tiomkin won an Academy Award for his original score while his title song for the film also was nominated for an Oscar bu...
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The High and the Mighty is a 1954 CinemaScope drama adventure film with a star-laden ensemble cast released through Warner Brothers. The film starred and was co-produced by John Wayne, directed by William A. Wellman, and written by Ernest K. Gann who was also the author of the novel on which the film was based. Composer Dimitri Tiomkin won an Academy Award for his original score while his title song for the film also was nominated for an Oscar but did not win. The film follows the lives and interactions among the passengers and crew on board a Douglas DC-4 airliner while making a trans-Pacific flight (Hawaii to California) during which a catastrophic prop failure and engine fire leads all to the brink of disaster. The High and the Mighty served as a template for later "disaster" themed films such as the Airport series (1970-79), The Towering Inferno (1974), The Hindenburg (1975) and Titanic (1997).
While The High and the Mighty is often categorized as both an adventure/drama as well...
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