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The High and the Mighty

The 2-Year Best-Seller Sensation! The Year's Greatest Cast!

Rating 5.9 / 10Release July 3, 1954Runtime 147 min

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 that takes a terrifying turn when disaster strikes high above the Pacific Ocean after the point of no return.

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