Hi Jim
Thanks for that I can never remember the name of that film, but although made on the cheap I think it set the trend for nearly all the other disaster airplane films.
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Posts from arthurarnell in thread „The High And The Mighty (1954)“
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Hi Badger
John Wayne wasn't due to make the High and the Mighty i think Spencer tracy was scheduled to make it but pulled out at the last minute.
Robert Stack later appeared in airplane playing the role that Sterling hayden played in a similar film the name of which I can't remember at the moment but starred Dana Andrews.
Airplane was based on the High and the Mighty and the Dana Andrew movie.
The problem with The High and the Mighty was that it had achieved cult status. Not many people had seen it and with the mystery of its non appearance for so long everyone wanted to see it.
In an early post I commented that I hope people would,nt be disappointed when it finally came out as although a good film it wasn't a great one.
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Finally The High and The Mighty made its debut on DVD in the UK on Monday looks pretty good, can't wait to watch the film and the special features..
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The collection is completed with the additions of
Pedro Gonzales Gonzales as Gonzales
Douglas Fowley as Alsop
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Regis Toomey as Tim Garfield
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Two of the Male Members of the crew
William Campbell as Hobie Wheeler
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Wally Brown as the Navigator Lenny Wilby
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Also
Ann Doran as Claire Joseph
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Other passengers were
Doe Avedon as Miss Spalding Her film career was brief comprising a handful of pictures
before she married the film Director Don Siegal.
Karen Sharp Kramer as newly married Nell Buck.
Try as I could I couldn,t find a photo of Milo Buck played by John Smith.
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My mistake that what comes of relying on the memory.
Among the passengers was
Paul Kelly playing Donald Flaherty the scientist
John Howard as Howard Rice
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Paul Fix as Frank Briscoe
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Other passengers included:
David Brian as Kent a collector of other mens wives
John Qualen as Jose Locota
and Sidney Blackmer as Humphrey Agnew a man bent on revenge.
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It also included Jan Sterling (who would win the Academy Best Supporting actress Award for her role of Sally McKee - 'who lived in a world of whistles'
Ed Harris as Ed Joseph - a gag man who should have been wearing one
and Robert Newton - A 'ham' caught with his hair down.
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For its day besides John Wayne as Dan Roman it boasted a very good supporting cast including:-
Robert Stack as Captain John Sullivan -Whose nerves of steel were starting to rust
Claire Trevor as May Holst - Strictly a night-time woman
Laraine Day - Low as High Society could get
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Here' another poster advertising the picture
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Using this thread to comment I find it slightly ironic that in Mike's (Hondo Lane's) 2007 poll only one voter so far has included TH&TM in his list of favourite pictures.
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Talking about the music from the film this is the sheet that I got the words of the song from.
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Hi Vera
No Our DVD player in the lounge dosen't work very well and after my son reconnected the DVD recorder it doesn't work.
The best thing I have is a portable DVD played my wife bought me for my birthday. As you can see when it come to matters electrical I am not that clever.
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Hi Robbie
One of the problems with waiting for so long to see a film you have waited for years to see is that it sometimes fails to live up to the expectations and many people thought this would be tha case with The High And the Mighty.
In my case I enjoyed it the first time round and seeing it for the second time only brougt back the previous enjoyment.
As to the merits of whether its a good film or not this is down to conjecture. For me personally it was enjoyable and under that criteria I think its a good film.
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AT LONG LASTI have a watchable copy of The High And The Mighty. it has no adverts , Its in a split screen but I can live with that. its only taken me 52 years from first seeing the picture as an eleven year old at the local TROXY cinema to have a watchable copy.
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At this moment Sky Cinema 1 is showing The High And the Mighty and with a bit of luck I am taping it.
It's amazing some of the things you learn reading the credits I find that John Qualen who I intend to review next month composed some of the music for the film.
Talking about the music I have lost the original thread regarding this question but I recall somebody saying that they didn't know that the song The High and The Mighty had words.
I have the original sheet music which originally cost 2/- (10 pence in Decoimal currency)
I obviously can't read music or know how the stanzas are put to-gether but if anyone is interested here goes:-
'I was high and mighty,
How I laughed at love,
And the stars above,
Then you came like a gentle flame
And helped me find my way!I was high and mighty
And I told my heart
Where to stop and start,
Now I find that I was blind,
I'm learning it day by day!
Love can change things,
Re-Arrange things,
Oh, what strange things love can do!I'm not high and mighty
But I have what's worth
All the gold on earth,
I have you and I give my heart
For - ev - er and ev - er to you
you, you, you!Regards
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Hopefull we won't have to wait another fifty years before its released in the UK and Europe.
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