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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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Character
Earnest, grave, classical in form and overwhelming.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
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Cast
- John WayneDan Roman
- Claire TrevorMay Holst
- Laraine DayLydia Rice
- Robert StackJohn Sullivan
- Jan SterlingSally McKee
- Phil HarrisEd Joseph
- Robert NewtonGustave Pardee
- David BrianKen Childs
- Paul KellyDonald Flaherty
- Sidney BlackmerHumphrey Agnew
Crew
- William A. WellmanDirector
- Ernest K. GannScreenplay
- Ernest K. GannNovel
- Archie StoutDirector of Photography
- Dimitri TiomkinOriginal Music Composer
- Ralph DawsonEditor
- John WayneProducer
- Robert FellowsProducer
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