Handguns, cigarettes, ermine wraps and steak dinners. This is when it was still fun to take a 12 hour flight. So long as the crew didn't insist on pitching your suitcase out the back door along the way. Watch Duke command this crisis and ask yourself who else you want up there with you while Bob Stack sweats and fidgets? This story and Robert Stacks performance in particular are clearly the inspiration for the Airplane series. I am a big fan of pretty boy, John Smith, having met him in a bar in Mechanicville NY in 1963 before the world premier of some B movie he had just made. I am so glad you no longer have to declare your age at the ticket counter down at the airport.
Review of The High and the Mighty
