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Movie
German title Day comes again and again
Original title The High and the Mighty
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1954
length 141 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director William A. Wellman
script Ernest K. Gann
production John Wayne ,
Robert Fellows
music Dimitri Tiomkin
camera Archie Stout ,
William H. Clothier
cut Ralph Dawson
occupation
synchronization

It will always day (Original title: The High and the Mighty ) is an American disaster film by the director William A. Wellman from 1954. It is based on the novel It will always day ( The High and the Mighty ) by Ernest K. Gann , who also wrote the script.

action

A Douglas DC-4 airliner of the (fictitious) Trans Orient Pacific (TOPAC) airline takes off on a normal scheduled flight from Honolulu to San Francisco . There are all sorts of passengers on board with their different views and problems. Donald Flaherty, a remorseful scientist who worked on the atomic bomb ; the rich Lydia Rice is exempted from her husband Howard; Nell and Milo Buck are on their honeymoon; Dorothy Chen has fled Korea ; the aging beauty May Holst; the ailing Frank Briscoe; the egocentric dramatist Gustave Pardee with his wife Lilian; Humphrey Agnew, who thinks Ken Childs on board is having an affair with his wife; Sally McKee, a bride on her way to meet her groom; the fisherman José Lacota; the exuberant couple Ed and Clara Joseph; and Toby Field, a young boy who travels unaccompanied by an adult and sleeps in the cabin all the time.

The crew consists of flight captain John Sullivan and the older Dan Roman, who a few years earlier had lost his wife and only child in a plane crash in which he was a captain at the wheel. Since then he has only been flying as the first officer . There are also the young and quite cheeky Second Officer Hobie Wheeler and the navigation officer Lenny Wilby in the front of the cockpit . Wilby is blindly in love with his young wife, who is staying at home, although he does not notice that she only despises him. The young stewardess Miss Spalding is on duty in the cabin.

On the way, the crew noticed unusual vibrations at times. All other people on board don't notice anything at first. Captain Sullivan finally realizes that the technical problem is looming with engine no. 1, the outer engine on the left wing. Before the crew can take any action, the engine explodes, exactly at the moment when the jealous Agnew confronts his supposed rival Childs and tries to pull a pistol he has brought with him. In the explosion, the propeller of engine 1 is torn off and punctures holes in the neighboring fuel tanks in the wing. The engine is crooked in the engine nacelle. With the help of a cargo ship moving nearby, the US Coast Guard is alerted and has a rescue team on hand.

The point of no return , the point at which the machine has covered more than half the distance and no turning back is possible, is already behind them. All luggage is thrown overboard; At first it looks as if the machine can still reach the US west coast despite the loss of fuel, but then Wilby is horrified to find that he has calculated the distance incorrectly, probably in the atmosphere of fear, and must be Captain Sullivan announce that reaching the mainland is almost impossible. Now he gradually loses his nerve and has preparations for a ditching. But now the hour has come for Dan Roman: he throttles the engines that are still running to save fuel and still get the plane to the airport. When Sullivan panics as a result, Roman brings him to his senses again with calm words, but then with a few punches.

While the passengers in the cabin quarrel with their fate, the pilots manage to land the plane in Frisco, literally with the last drop of fuel. The TOPAC flight director there suspects that it was Roman's merit and mumbles his appreciation after him, while at the end he strolls out into the darkness whistling.

background

Spencer Tracy did not want to accept the offered role of Dan Roman, because he did not agree with the way director William A. Wellman worked. The young Toby Field, who slept through the turbulence of the plane, was played by Michael Wellman, the director's son. The future director Andrew V. McLaglen worked as an assistant director for this film.

The Douglas DC-4 used in the film was the type of aircraft that came closest to the machine in the detailed description of the novel and the Ernest K. Gann, who flew this model as a professional pilot for Transocean Air Lines (TALOA), probably as a model when writing it took. The type designation is not mentioned in the book or in the film. The DC-4 was even more modern in the 1950s, but it was no longer the ideal type of aircraft, especially for such long overseas routes. In contrast to the more modern machines at the time, it did not have a pressurized cabin and therefore could not fly very high or very quickly. The 4,000 km route from Hawaii to California took her about twelve hours and almost all of her fuel capacity. Transocean Air Lines aircraft were used for filming.

The film, shot in color and in Cinemascope, is one of the first disaster films to deal with the subject of aircraft. It was so successful that he founded his own sub-genre with the subject of "Airplane in Need" within the disaster films. The film was also very successful when it was broadcast on American television. But between 1985 and 2005 the film, like its predecessor The Last Signal (with John Wayne in the lead role, Wellman as director and Ernest K. Gann as screenwriter), was lost. It was only at the instigation of Wayne's daughter-in-law Gretchen that both films were restored and released by Paramount Home Entertainment as a Special Collector's Edition DVD in August 2005 .

Reviews

The lexicon of international films said that the film tells "how the characters and temperaments reveal themselves in the exceptional psychological situation". The result was a "well made psychological thriller with strong internal drama that found a lot of (mostly weaker) imitators".

Awards

The film won an Oscar in the category of best film music in 1955 . He was also nominated in the categories of Best Director , Best Supporting Actress , Best Editing and Best Song ( The High and the Mighty ). Both Jan Sterling and Claire Trevor were nominated for Best Supporting Actress. At the 1955 Golden Globe Awards , Sterling received the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress , and Karen Sharpe was named Best New Actress.

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role actor Voice actor
Dan Roman John Wayne Heinz Engelmann
John Sullivan Robert Stack Horst Niendorf
Lenny Wilby Wally Brown Wolfgang Eichberger
Hobie Whealer William Campell Herbert Stass
May Holst Claire Trevor Alice Treff
Lydia Rice Laraine Day Tilly Lauenstein
Sally McBride Jan Sterling Eleanor Noelle
Ken Childs David Brian Curt Ackermann
Donald Flaherty Paul Kelly Friedrich Joloff
Humphrey Agnew Sidney Blackmer Wolf Martini
Howard Rice John Howard Ernst von Klipstein
Gustave Pardee Robert Newton Walther Suessenguth
Alsop Douglas Fowley Peter Petersz
Lilian Pardee Julie Bishop Elisabeth Ried
Gonzales Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez Hugo Schrader
Jose Locota John torments Alfred Balthoff
Frank Briscoe Paul Fix Kurt Vespermann
Boyd Douglas Kennedy Axel Monjé
Tim Garfield Regis Toomey Siegfried Schürenberg

literature

  • Ernest K. Gann : In the game of violence. Novel. (Original title: The High and the Mighty ). German by Lola Humm-Sernau . Bastei-Verlag Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1969, 284 pp.
  • Manfred Hobsch: The great lexicon of disaster films. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3896024744 .

Web links

Commons : The High and the Mighty  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Day comes again and again. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ Day comes again and again. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing index , accessed on June 23, 2017 .
  3. ↑ See synchrondatenbank.de