HIGH AND THE MIGHTY

[edgedrv]

Paramount finally announced a street date for this long-awaited John Wayne classic. Its due for release on August 2 as a special edition. No info regarding extra features have been announced as yet. Fans have been waiting for the release of the all-star HIGH AND THE MIGHTY for years.

[johnnyweekes70]

I finally saw this picture and was duly impressed but I'm wondering about one thing. When Wayne is just about the land the plane, there's a quick close-up, in wonderful CinemaScope, wherein he drawls, "Now I lay me down to sleep!" Surely, this is has got to be the first instance of the later cliched action-star reciting the humourous line-to-end-all-lines...you know the ones I mean. Am I wrong? Is there an earlier example?

[nodgnoc]

I just saw this Friday night and was bored to death. Every airplane/airport clich? in the book. This film was LAME from beginning to end. It's difficult to believe this movie was nominated for 1 Oscar much less 6. A complete waste of celluloid. Island in the Sky was a little better but not much. They could have easily left these 2 turkeys on the shelf and let them deteriorate to ashes. it would have been a mercy killing.

[johnnyweekes70]

I think that every airplane/airport clich? there is in the book comes from this film. They weren't clich?s when the film came out but it's hard to wipe the slate clean when you see a film like this. As with The Iron Horse, you really need to when trying to appreciate and place in a film in context when so many later films are imitations (for better of worse) of an original.

[path40a]

johnny is right, and it's tough to do, but when watching "the original" in a genre like this, you have to realize that the overdone cliches which follow are the sincerest form of flattery. Or in the case of Airplane!, also with Robert Stack, an hilarious spoof only made possible because of the original;- )