Fate is the Hunter is a movie I haven't seen in ages...another good movie.....H&M is dated and the dialogue a little corny, but it's a Wayne film and a must see and own...
Movies like the High and the Mighty often did things first when they were fresh and new. After that everyone copying them made them corny.
I have this belief that any art medium has a certain lifespan, where most of what can be expressed is said/done in that medium and after that most is repetitious and rarely is there anything fresh and new and good done.
I think movies are reaching the limit of what human actors and human story/plots can express that is P.C. and hasn't already been done before.
Then a new medium comes in that opens new avenues for expression of ideas and stories, and you go through the cycle again.
Computer generated special effects have extended the lifespan of the movie medium by making it possible for them to tell some stories (like LOTR's) that regular film couldn't have done justice to, or to remake stories that were done well before, but not with the updated special effects and the current cultural orientations (P.C. refashioning of the tale, current fads in acting styles and dialog). [Now there's a run-on sentence!]
Anyway. I'll have to see the High and the Mighty to decide if it seems corny from the view of our current cultural thinking or if the many airplane movies that came after it made it cliche.