William A. Wellman's The high and the mighty
2005
DVD
A commercial airliner develops engine trouble while flying over the Pacific Ocean. The pilot panics, so it is up to the washed-up co-pilot to get the plane down safely. .
Item Details
ISBN: 141570886X
Edition: Special collector's edition.
Description:
- 2 videodiscs (148 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- digital
- optical
- surround
- Dolby
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
Target Audience Note: MPAA rating: Not rated.
Other Title: High and the mighty
Notes:
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1954.
- Based on the novel by Ernest K. Gann.
- Special features: Disc 1: Introduction and commentary by Leonard Maltin; commentary by William Wellman Jr., Karen Sharpe, Pedro Gonzales-Gonzales and Vincent Longo; Disc 2: introduction by Leonard Maltin; the Batjac story; stories from the set; on director William A. Wellman; the music and world of Dimitri Tiomkin; restoring a classic; a place in film history; Ernest K. Gann - adventurer, author & artist; flying in the fifties; theatrical trailer, TV trailer, Batjac Montage; The High and the Mighty premiere footage; photo gallery.
- Music, Dimitri Tiomkin; photography, Archie Stout; aerial photography, William Clothier; editor, Ralph Dawson.
- John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Laraine Day, Robert Stack, Jan Sterling, Phil Harris, Robert Newton, David Brian, William Schallert
- DVD,NTSC, region 1, widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital, 5.1 surround, 2.0 surround.
- In English with optional subtitles in English; closed-captioned.
- Academy Awards, 1955: Best music.
Publisher or Distributor Number:
- 88763
- 88763
Control Number: 534653
UPC: 097368876347
Publisher: Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Home Entertainment, [2005]Series:
Subjects:
- Air pilots -- Drama.
- Aircraft accidents -- Drama.
- Gann, Ernest K. (Ernest Kellogg), 1910-1991 -- Film adaptations.
- Pacific Ocean -- Drama.
Genre:
- Drama.
- Feature films -- United States.
- Feature films.
- Fiction films.
- Film adaptations.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Other Authors:
- Batjac Productions.
- Clothier, William, 1903-1996.
- Day, Laraine, 1920-2007, actor.
- Gann, Ernest K. (Ernest Kellogg), 1910-1991, screenwriter.
- Gann, Ernest K. (Ernest Kellogg), 1910-1991. High and the mighty.
- Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm)
- Stack, Robert, 1919-2003, actor.
- Sterling, Jan, 1923-2004, actor.
- Stout, Archie J., 1886-1973.
- Tiomkin, Dimitri, 1894-1979, composer.
- Trevor, Claire, 1910-2000, actor.
- Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967)
- Wayne, John, 1907-1979, actor.
- Wellman, William A., 1896-1975, director.