Top of the World is a 1955 American aviation adventure film, directed by Lewis R. Foster, and written by John D. Klorer and N. Richard Nash.

[1] The film starred Dale Robertson,[2] Evelyn Keyes,[3] Frank Lovejoy,[4] Nancy Gates,[5][6] Paul Fix,[2][7] Robert Arthur,[8][9][10] and Peter Hansen.

[12] The United States Air Force endeavoured to support the production of Top of the World as a means to inform the public of the work of the USAF in the far north.

[13][Note 1] Unable to fly jet missions at his age, Major (soon promoted to Lieutenant Colonel) Lee Gannon (Dale Robertson) is reassigned from a Californian air base to a weather station in Alaska, against his wishes.

Stationed on a large block of drift ice far north of Alaska, Gannon and his men are at great risk as the floe melts and rescue aircraft are unable to land.