John Wayne's Coolest Scenes #4: Cockpit, "The High & The Mighty" (1954)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ต.ค. 2024
- Veteran pilot Duke is back after a long absence following a plane disaster.
Robert Stack plays an experienced pilot who is losing his nerve.
Their damaged plane is struggling to reach the California coast before having to ditch.
Will they make it?
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Great moment from "The High and the Mighty" when Roman, the co-pilot, slaps some sense into the pilot, Sullivan, who panics, and attempts to prematurely ditch the plane into the ocean before they can find a way to safely land in San Francisco.This film is one of the greatest ever made, a classic tale of human courage and perseverance under the threat of eminent death.This film had everything a movie fan could want:great script, acting, cinematography, direction, and nail biting suspense that keeps you on the edge of your seat.Add to this an unforgettable film score by Dimitri Tiomkin that has one of the most famous film themes in Hollywood History.The ending is classic, with John Wayne walking away in the distance while whistling the main theme, reminiscent of the ending of "The Searchers", when Wayne, as Ethan Edwards, slowly walks away in the distance as the film ends.Hollywood, to its shame, never makes movies like "the High and the Mighty" anymore.
Robert Stack sounded exactly like that in "Airplane!" :-)
This is the ultimate example of CRM, " Cockpit Resource Management". Every flight should have a flight crew like this!
Love when he smacks the crap out of Stack and takes over the plane!! Love this film!
This is SO John Wayne it is almost an homage.
What a great movie. The FIRST "airline disaster" picture.
The chemistry between these two powerhouse Actors is simply riveting! Magic on the screen!
Great movie! This was the great airplane movie before the airport saga.
My favorite story regarding this film comes from Maureen O'Hara's autobiography: Duke and Pilot Charles Blair (Maureen's husband) went out for a joyride in a seaplane. When they landed they got reprimanded, because it needed two pilots for the type of plane they took. Charlie and Duke then reminded security about the movie High and Mighty with John Wayne flying the plane. The guy bought it and they got off scot free!
Scot Free
Scotch is used to describe something thats cheap and ineffective, as is Scotch Tape
@@mynamejeff785 thank you- corrected the typo!
I don't get it why some people hate this movie. It's great how I love movies by John Wayne!
C-54, first bird I caught a hop on to get home. That was in 1970 and it was on it's way to the aircraft boneyard! 5 years later I was flying it's big brother the C-118. I loved props!
My favorite scene is after they've landed and the ground crew reports all that was left in the fuel tanks were fumes. That was 65 years ago kids, and I'll remember that scene until the day I die.
been there a time or two...
Irwin Allen must have gotten some great ideas form this. The disparate group of characters, passengers - thinking about their lives as they may or may not survive this flight. The tension between the pilots. Great formula, and it still works today.
indeed this is credited as the first disaster movie.films like san francisco had the disaster just as another part of the plot.also being just after the war airplane stories like ernest gann and neville shute were very popular.this film started a run of airplane disaster films.
@@mikekemp9877 AIRPORT had copied a lot from it.
Would never have come about had it not been for Ernest K. Gann’s novel. Lots of seamy and sordid subplots contained therein dealing with the drama of passenger lives.
Thanks. I love John Wayne.
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I loveRobert Stack !
Best CRM film I ever saw!!!!!
There is the "bitch slap", then there is the "Man Slap" - the Duke doesn't deal in the former.
One of my fav movies... The granddaddy of disaster movies...
The movie has delightful stereo optical tracks.
Ultimate in CRM! One way to reduce the cockpit gradient 😅😅
Good thing John Wayne wasn't on the plane with Sully Sullenburger. Sully: "We're landing on the Hudson" John Wayne "No you're not! (Slap slap)"
Patience is a virtue, but every now & then, you just gotta slap some sense into somebody.
"Here we go!"
"No we don't!" smack, smack !
You really couldn't get away with that in a film today.
Excellent CRM!
LOL!!
Funnily enough, more than a few disasters could have been avoided if one of the pilots had proceeded in just this manner with his coming-off-the-rails counterpart.
Bob Stack was in Airplane!, which was inspired by this movie.
Actually Airplane was based on the 1957 movie "Zero Hour" - Look up the plot - you'll note a "few" similarities!
The technique John Wayne uses when reducing power is an old fuel saving trick. Lower the RPM on the props and add boost with the throttles. This is why you see him pull back on the white prop controls and then shove the throttles up. Kind of like driving your car at a very low speed in fifth gear. Hard on the engines which is why Stack says they'll blow another jug!
Not only do I have The High and The Mighty on DVD I have an 11×17 poster for The High and Thr Mighty in my MSN cave
Looks like Robert Stack did eat the fish!
Getting bitch slapped by John Wayne has to be a pretty sobering experience!
Robert stack , as Rex Kramer …
“Keep’em at thirty thousand…..
No !, ..Feet !”
My all time favorite movie
damn the duke is just cool
Unknown mystery actor Robert Stack
This is nothing like the Ernest K. Gann novel where the John Wayne character, Sullivan, is full of self doubt, indecisiveness and angst and the co-pilot, Dan Roman as a seasoned, aging pilot is equally complex but eminently capable-haunted by the loss of his wife and daughter in an airliner mishap that he himself piloted. But you know, if you cast John Wayne, what you’re going to get is John Wayne...
@@mikejensen4238 “Fear is the Key” is one of my favorite Maclean novels. I need to see the film some day. Gann’s “Island in the Sky” is also great and the film offers up a very faithful adaptation. Another Maclean aviation themed novel you’d like, which lamentably was almost filmed in 1962 but cancelled was “Night Without End”.
You got it totally backwards. Robert Stack plays Capt. Sullivan and John Wayne plays the co=pilot, First Officer Roman. Try actually seeing a movie before making comments.
@@darkwood777 What a completely peevish thing to bloody say.
I'm not sure but I think 🤔🧐🤔 I've scene, all the Dukes Movies, at least once? This film The High and The Mighty, I did see but only once 🔂🔂 and then, Island's In The Sky, I've seen a couple of Times for Sure.
After John Wayne, got too be let's say known? He had developed the unique traits, of his Profession, & his own identity!! The signature Walk, His Talk, Facial expressions, how he would either Eye Ball, a Co- star ✨ Male or Female, and lastly His Body language!! Personally I never saw him Telegraph a Punch, per say. He was definitely American all The Way.
Oh don't Forget "IRISH" also.
Great clip there, and Thanks 🫂😊 for screening them for US. WYO, Robert, 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇸😎😎🙏🙏👀👀🍿🚬🚬🤔🤔🏈🏈🤳🤳🍨🍨
Duke, and other good actor, Robert Stake.
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Robert Stack made Robert Wagner Look Like Alec Guiness!
I noticed Stack moving the control yoke back and forth. He didn't seem to look at the artificial horizon demonstrating in real life he was not a pilot. I don't think John Wayne was either. Great movie though!
Christmas John. What did it mean to you? For me, it was a living hell. Do you know what it's like to fall down in the snow and get kicked in the head by an iron boot? No, of course not. That never happens. Forget that.
No way this is #4!
Don't call Me Shirley
Ted Sraker plays a pilot who has lost his nerve...
Guess I picked the wrong day to stop popping pills.
Johnny, what can you make out of this?
I can make a hat, a brooch, a pterodactyl….
Haven't seen this, wonder why not being shown
Will Stack develop a drinking problem?
The beginning of the scene he kind of looks like Ted Stryker from Airplane.
They're regular flying fools!
Get ahold of yourself!
CRM at its finest!
Slap him again
This is the Amazon link to download my version of the theme from the 1954 movie "The High And The Mighty". You can view the music video for free. www.amazon.com/High-Mighty-Joe-Langfitt/dp/B087PQDGBM/ref=sr_1_15?dchild=1&keywords=joe+langfitt&qid=1588871781&sr=8-15
CRM much?
Note to the director: Lame scene. Maybe a lot less steering by the pilot, flying an airplane is a lot less moving the "steering wheel" or the yoke in the airplane. You're welcome.
You should actually look him up.
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Good movie, except for the animated movements & obvious 'reading of the script' technique of so-called "John Wayne, which wasn't even his real name. He sold-out his birth name of Marion Robert Morrison to Hollywood deceit, greed, & personal anticipation of greater recognition. Also another example of blatant disrespect for family heritage. So-called "Laraine Day" also sold-out her birth name of La Raine Johnson. So-called "Claire Trevor" sold-out her birth name of Claire Wemlinger. So-called "Jan Sterling" sold-out her birth name of Jane Sterling Adriance. So-called "David Brian" sold-out his birth name of Brian James Davis. So-called "John Smith" sold-out his birth name of Robert Errol Van Orden. So-called "Julie Bishop" sold-out her birth name of Jacqueline Brown. So-called 'John Howard" sold-out his birth name of John Richard Cox, Jr. So-called "John "Qualen" sold-out his birth name of
Johan Mandt Kvalen. So-called "Doe Avedon" sold-out her birth name of Dorcas Marie Nowell. So-called "Patrick Wayne" followed in his father's footsteps and sold-out his birth name of Patrick John Morrison. Phil Harris, on the other hand, wasn't ashamed of his Father. He DIDN'T sell-out his birthname to the shallowness of Hollywood. He also was a good actor & had a great reassuring voice.
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Ridiculous, Islands in the sky was a much better film.
Most of John Wayne movies contracts , " I have the right to" bitch slap
"any co star , man or woman. And call any co star a yellow belle so and so , even if I never serve in a true war active duty. Only in movies.
Not very convincing, JW is a payne in the butt and I prefer RS in the Untouchables.
I'd say John Wayne invented the "bitch slap". 1:25