Screenplay: Ernest K. Gann

Direction Boris Sagal

Cast Peter O'Toole · Peter Strauss · Barbara Carrera · Anthony Quayle

Plot Flavius Silva, commander in Roman Palestine, wants to reach a reasonable compromise with the Jewish Zealots and withdraw his legion. Events and personalities in Rome, however, lead to his besieging...

Direction Ralph Nelson

Cast Glenn Ford · Nancy Kwan · Rod Taylor · Suzanne Pleshette

Plot Airliner crashes near Los Angeles due to unusual string of coincidences. Stewardess, who is sole survivor, joins airline executives in discovering the causes of the crash.

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast John Wayne · Lloyd Nolan · Walter Abel · James Arness

Plot A transport plane crash-lands in the frozen wastes of Labrador, and the plane's pilot, Dooley (Wayne), must keep his men alive in deadly conditions while waiting for rescue.

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast John Wayne · Claire Trevor · Laraine Day · Robert Stack

Plot John Wayne personally produced many of his '50s films, which is why some of them have languished in corporate limbo following his death. The High and the Mighty was one...

Direction Joseph Pevney

Cast Rock Hudson · Cyd Charisse · Arthur Kennedy · Leif Erickson

Plot Adapted by Ernest Gann from his own novel, Twilight for the Gods bears traces of Gann's earlier The High and the Mighty. This "psychological adventure" stars Rock Hudson as Captain...

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast Clark Gable · Susan Hayward · Gene Barry · Alexander D'Arcy

Plot A woman named Jane (Susan Hayward) enlists mercenaries to help find her lost husband, photographer Louis Hoyt (Gene Barry) in Red China. Late Gable vehicle with the formula beginning to...

Direction Charles Jarrott

Cast Elliott Gould · Geneviève Bujold · Rick Schroder · Vincent Gardenia

Direction George T. Miller

Cast Christopher Reeve · Rosanna Arquette · Jack Warden · Sam Wanamaker

Plot A 1920s mail pilot and a rich man's daughter crash-land on a mountain full of hungry wolves.

Direction John Farrow

Cast Anne Baxter · William Holden · Sonny Tufts · William Bendix

Plot In the 1920s, the four McDonald brothers leave the uncertain life of carnival stunt fliers for steady jobs with the U.S. Air Mail. They've agreed that "guys like us don't...

Direction George Sherman

Cast Shelley Winters · Richard Conte · Stephen McNally · Charles Bickford

Plot A San Francisco hood is rubbed out by rival Bruno Felkin, who himself reports the crime to Homicide Lieut. Kelsey in an alibi scheme which fails. To escape, he stows...