No Highway

"EXCITEMENT and SUSPENSE 18,000 Feet Over the Atlantic!"

Sep 21 1951 Approved 1h 39m
Drama, Thriller

James Stewart plays aeronautical engineer Theodore Honey, the quintessential absent-minded professor: eccentric, forgetful, but brilliant. His studies show that the aircraft being manufactured by his employer has a subtle but deadly design flaw that manifests itself only after the aircraft has flown a certain number of hours. En route to a crash site to prove his theory, Honey discovers that he is aboard a plane rapidly approaching his predicted deadline.

Plot

Theodore Honey is an aeronautical engineer being sent to Labrador from London to examine the wreckage of a new passenger plane designed by his company. His theory is that the planes are susceptible to metal fatigue after a specific amount of time in the air. The absent minded Honey boards the Reindeer class plane and only realizes that this plane is due to fail in the next few hours after the plane is airborne. He decides to warn the crew and creates an incident regardless of whether he is right or wrong.

Written by

Nevil Shute, R.C. Sherriff, Oscar Millard

Directed by

Henry Koster

Cast

James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Glynis Johns

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America, United Kingdom

Production Companies

20th Century Fox

Languages

English

Awards

N/A

Trailers
No Highway In The Sky - Trailer
Scores
# of Votes
4,692
Average Rating
7.1 out of 10
Metascore
NA
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