No Highway in the Sky is a 1951 British disaster film directed by Henry Koster and starring James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich. The film is based on the novel No Highway by Nevil Shute, and was one of the first films that involved a potential aircraft crash.
The film follows Theodore Honey (James Stewart), an aeronautical engineer leaving London to investigate an aircraft crash in Labrador, which he theorizes occurs because of a structural flaw i...
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No Highway in the Sky is a 1951 British disaster film directed by Henry Koster and starring James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich. The film is based on the novel No Highway by Nevil Shute, and was one of the first films that involved a potential aircraft crash.
The film follows Theodore Honey (James Stewart), an aeronautical engineer leaving London to investigate an aircraft crash in Labrador, which he theorizes occurs because of a structural flaw in the design caused by the number of flight cycles and weaknesses around the rivets which held the aircraft's skin together. It isn't until Honey is aboard the "Reindeer" airliner that he realizes he himself is flying one such plane, and that it is due to crash in a matter of hours. Honey decides to warn the passengers and crew, including actress Monica Teasdale (Marlene Dietrich), despite not being sure of his theory. After the Reindeer lands at Gander Airport he takes drastic action to stop the plane continuing when he raises the landing...
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