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.
Captain Dooley
John Wayne
Captain Stutz
Lloyd Nolan
Col. Fuller
Walter Abel
Mac McMullen
James Arness
Willie Moon
Andy Devine
J.H. Handy
Allyn Joslyn
Murray, Dooley's navigator
Jimmy Lydon
Ralph Hunt, Moon's co-pilot
Harry Carey, Jr.
Stankowski, Dooley's engineer
Hal Baylor
Frank Lovatt, Dooley's co-pilot
Sean McClory
D'Annunzia, Dooley's radioman
Wally Cassell
Walrus
Gordon Jones
Captain Turner
Frank Fenton
Major Ditson
Robert Keys
Lieutenant Cord
Sumner Getchell
Sergeant Harper
Regis Toomey
Wally Miller
Paul Fix
Gidley
Jim Dugan
Rene
George Chandler
Fitch
Louis Jean Heydt
Wilson
Bob Steele
Swanson
Darryl Hickman
Gainer
Mike Connors
Stannish
Cass Gidley
Breezy
Herbert Anderson
Ogden
Anthony De Mario
Moon's Wife (uncredited)
Ann Doran
Fitch's Co-Pilot (uncredited)
Fess Parker
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
William A. Wellman
Murray's Wife
Dawn Bender
Sonny Hopper
Carl Switzer
Boy (uncredited)
Billy Lee Aimone