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No Highway in the Sky (also known as No Highway) is a 1951 black-and-white aviation drama film directed by Henry Koster from a screenplay by R. C. Sherriff, Oscar Millard, and Alec Coppel, based on the 1948 novel No Highway by Nevil Shute. The film stars James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Glynis Johns, Jack Hawkins, Janette Scott, Elizabeth Allan ...
No Highway in the Sky: Directed by Henry Koster. With James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Glynis Johns, Jack Hawkins. An aeronautical engineer predicts that a new model of airplane will fail catastrophically and in a novel manner after a specific number of flying hours due to metal fatigue.
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- Drama, Thriller
- Henry Koster
- 1951-09-21
Theodore Honey (James Stewart) is a mathematician charged with discovering what caused the crash of a "Reindeer" airliner. As he travels to investigate, he realizes en route that he's flying on ...
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- Henry Koster
- Drama
- James Stewart
No Highway. Date: 1951. Director: Henry Koster. Production Company: Twentieth Century-Fox Productions. Stars: James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Jack Hawkins, Glynis Johns. Location (s): Hampshire, Middlesex, Surrey. Region (s): South East M-Q.
Overview. 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.
No Highway in the Sky ★★★1951. Eccentric scientist Theodore Honey (Stewart) works for the Royal Aircraft Establishment, which has just produced a new plane, the Reindeer. But Honey tells his boss Dennis Scott (Hawkins) that the plane has a serious defect.
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No Highway in the Sky (a.k.a. No Highway) is a 1951 British black-and-white aviation film from 20th Century Fox, produced by Louis D. Lighton, directed by Henry Koster, that stars James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Glynis Johns, Niall MacGinnis, Janette Scott, and Jack Hawkins.
