Character mistake: The word "missile" is misspelled as "missle" on the sign at the research facility where the one passenger served as a scientist.
The High and the Mighty (1954)
1 mistake since 20 Feb '19, 00:00
Directed by: William A. Wellman
Starring: John Wayne, Robert Stack, Claire Trevor, Laraine Day
Alsop: She may be put together with paste and flour, but that woman has something. What would you say it was?
Miss Spalding: Practice. Plenty of practice.
Trivia: When Dr. Flaherty is painting on the beach, his tranquillity is broken by the nearby launch of a military weapon test. The film seen of the launch is stock footage of a U.S. built, back-engineered copy of the V-1 buzzbomb, one of the cutting edge weapons used by the Nazis during World War 2.
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