No Highway In The Sky (1951)
Starring: James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich
Director: Henry Koster
A little-known gem, No Highway in the Sky is an interesting
hybrid of U.S. and British film production. Most of the cast is
British, as are the look and feel of the film, but the lead actor and
the budget are both American.
Plot Summary
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.
--Summary written by John Vogel {jlvogel@comcast.net}
VHS cassette available at Amazon.