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Island in the Sky (1953)
Directed by William A. Wellman
“He Fought Every Fury of Man and Mountain To Get Where His Woman Was!”
Adventure, Drama · 1h 49m
A C-47 transport plane, named the Corsair, makes a forced landing in the frozen wastelands of Labrador, and the plane's pilot, Captain Dooley, must keep his men alive in deadly conditions while awaiting rescue.
Cast
John Wayne
Captain Dooley
Lloyd Nolan
Captain Stutz
Walter Abel
Col. Fuller
James Arness
Mac McMullen
Andy Devine
Willie Moon
Allyn Joslyn
J.H. Handy
Jimmy Lydon
Murray, Dooley's navigator
Harry Carey Jr.
Ralph Hunt, Moon's co-pilot
Hal Baylor
Stankowski, Dooley's engineer
Sean McClory
Frank Lovatt, Dooley's co-pilot
Wally Cassell
D'Annunzia, Dooley's radioman
Gordon Jones
Walrus
Crew
- Director
- William A. Wellman
- Screenplay
- Ernest K. Gann
- Novel
- Ernest K. Gann
- Director of Photography
- Archie Stout
- Original Music Composer
- Emil Newman
- Editor
- Ralph Dawson
- Producer
- John Wayne, Robert Fellows
Details
- Release date
- 1953-09-05
- Runtime
- 1h 49m
- Genres
- Adventure, Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Wayne-Fellows Productions, Warner Bros. Pictures