After checking my post office box, I spotted a movie I was planning to get on the nearby DVD shelves: The High and The Mighty (1954).
It is a two-disc DVD package with the second disc filled with extras.
The High and the Mighty was the template for the Airport airliner disaster movies of the late 1960s and 1970s.
According to Wikipedia:
The High and the Mighty is a 1954 WarnerColor American disaster film in CinemaScope directed by William A. Wellman and written by Ernest K. Gann who also wrote the 1953 novel on which his screenplay was based. The film's cast was headlined by John Wayne, who was also the project's co-producer. Composer Dimitri Tiomkin won an Academy Award for his original score while his title song for the film also was nominated for an Oscar (although the title song did not actually appear in release prints nor in the recent restoration of the film). The film received mostly positive reviews and grossed $8.5 million in its theatrical release. The supporting cast includes Claire Trevor, Laraine Day, Robert Stack, Jan Sterling, Phil Harris, and Robert Newton.I have this movie on VHS that I recorded off cable 30 years ago. But I currently don't have a VHS machine that works.
I now have something to watch tonight.
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