According to a Fate is the Hunter film poster I have hanging in my garage, someone else wrote the screenplay, the only mention of Gann on the poster and in the film credits is “Based on the Book by..”

The film High and the Mighty was well received when released.
But to modern audiences it’s very dated and “Airplane!” didn’t help.

In his autobio it is clear that EKG was very unhappy that Wellman had kept him out of the production team on High and Mighty,especially because he had been closely connected with the ‘Island’ movie.He said that the movie was advertised as ‘William Wellmans the High and the Mighty’