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The High and the Mighty Reviews

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A Real Classic
The High and the Mighty has always been one of my - if not my - favorite movie. I remember watching it as a kid, and would always look for it on TV whenever it was shown. It is a classic airline disastor movie with high suspense and wonderful charactor development. This is John Wayne at his best, and even though you know it has to have a happy ending, you still are on the edge of your seat everytime you see this movie. I am lucky enough to have a VHS copy that I taped from the TV years ago, but would love to see it released on DVD. I don't know why this particular movie is still under a legal gun, but I hope someone comes to their senses and lets it be released so all can enjoy.

A Young Boy's Memory
Ater reading the two reviews posted I couldn't help but add my comments as well. I saw the movie in the theater five times in 1954 when I was an elecven year old boy whose father had been a decorated B-17 pilot in WWII.

I wanted nothing more in life than to become an airline pilot after seeing that movie. The theme song, which has continued to play in my head over the ensuing years, always reminds me of that boyhood dream. Unfortunately my eyesight kept me from pursuing that dream and I've always regretted it. Wayne was the perfect hero and the final scenes of the movie have styaed with me ever since. Academy award theme song playing in the background, the station manager of SFO calling John Wayne's character an "old pelican" after he is insturmental in bringing the airliner home after six hours of terror over the Pacific, and John just walks off into the night in his beat up flight jacket saying nothing.

Maybe because I lived near the San Francisco airport and had flown out of there that summer on United to Seattle in an old DC4 and then on to Fairbanks, Alaska on Pan Am to visit my cousin made it even more meaningful. Whatever the reason, I can still remember the great cast and scenes in the back of the plane where everyone was terrified. Its the only movie that has affected me in such a manner.

I wish all who love that movie so much could convince the Wayne estate to release it as it is the finest example of his greatness as an actor.

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