Dana Andrews as Lt. Ted Stryker

Linda Darnell as Ellen Stryker

Sterling Hayden as Captain Martin Treleaven

Elroy 'Crazylegs' Hirsch as Capt. Bill Wilson

Geoffrey Toone as Dr. Baird

Jerry Paris as Tony Decker

Peggy King as Stewardess Janet Turner

Charles Quinlivan as Harry Burdick

Patricia Tiernan as Mrs. Joan Wilson

Steve London as First Officer Walt Stewart

Jo Ann Wade as Treleaven's Baby Sitter

Ray Ferrell as Joey Stryker

John Ashley as TV Singer

Willis Bouchey as RCAF Doctor

Maxine Cooper as Sick Plane Passenger

David Thursby as Whitmond

Noel Drayton as Vancouver Control Man

Fintan Meyler as Hysterical Woman

Larry Thor as Vancouver Radio Dispatcher

Russell Thorson as Vancouver Flight Dispatcher

Robert Stevenson as Calgary Operator

Mary Newton as Plane Passenger with Rosary Beads

Will Sage as Vancouver Radar Controller

Will J. White as Vancouver Policeman

Hope Summers as Older Woman

Richard Keith as Calgary Station Manager

Arthur Hanson as Toer Operator

Roy Gordon as Frank Graham

Woody Chambliss as Reporter (uncredited)

William Conrad as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Fred Fisher as Plane Passenger (uncredited)

Rudy Germane as Plane Passenger (uncredited)

James Gonzalez as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

Herschel Graham as Editor (uncredited)

Duane Grey as Plane Passenger (uncredited)

S. John Launer as Vancouver Switchboard Operator (uncredited)

James Maloney as Plane Passenger (uncredited)

William H. O'Brien as Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)

Monty O'Grady as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

Katherine Warren as Mrs. Purdy (uncredited)

John Zaremba as Passenger with Sick Wife (uncredited)