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The High And The Mighty (William A. Wellman, 1954)
Escrito en el cielo
Écrit dans le ciel
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General Information
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Type.................: movie
File Validation......: SFV
Container File.......: AVI
Video Format.........: XviD
Video Bitrate........: 1139
Audio Format.........: MP3 (1282Kb/s AVR)
Audio Languages......: English 2.0, Spanish 2.0
Subtitles ripped.....: Spanish, English
Subpack..............: English, Spanish, French, Nederland
Resolution...........: 688x272
Color................: Color
FPS..................: 25.000
Source...............: DVD 16x9
Duration.............: 02:21:20
Original Format......: PAL
Genre................: Action, Drama
IMDb Rating..........: 7.0
IMDB.................: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047086/
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Release Notes
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YEAR: 1954
RUNNING TIME: 147 min.
COUNTRY: United States
DIRECTOR: William A. Wellman
SCREENWRITER: Ernest K. Gann (Novel: Ernest K. Gann)
COMPOSER: Dimitri Tiomkin
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Archie Stout
CAST: John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Laraine Day, Robert Stack,
Jan Sterling, Phil Harris, Robert Newton, David Brian,
Paul Kelly, Sidney Blackmer, Julie Bishop, John Howard,
Wally Brown, William Campbell, John Qualen, Ann Doran,
Regis Toomey, Paul Fix
STUDIO/PRODUCER: Paramount Pictures
GENRE: Action/Drama
SYNOPSIS/PLOT:
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. (from amazon.com)
TRIVIA
* The lyrics to the famed title song are only heard at the very end, are
sung by a large choral group, and are different than the familiar lyrics heard
in the popular-song record releases of the time.
* Jan Sterling reportedly shaved her eyebrows for her role in the film and
they never grew back.
* John Wayne\'s first film in CinemaScope.
* Producer John Wayne chose Robert Cummings as his co-star for the role of
Captain Sullivan. Director William A. Wellman, however, overrode his producer
and chose Robert Stack for the part.
* Joan Crawford, Ida Lupino, Barbara Stanwyck, Ginger Rogers, and Dorothy
McGuire all turned down roles in this film.
* 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.
* Average Shot Length (ASL) = 11 seconds
* 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.
* 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".
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