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.
Directed by
Henry Koster
Written by
R.C. Sherriff, Alec Coppel, Oscar Millard
James Stewart
Theodore Honey
Glynis Johns
Marjorie Corder
Jack Hawkins
Dennis Scott
Marlene Dietrich
Monica Teasdale
Maurice Denham
Bessie Love
Plane Passenger (uncredited)
Wilfrid Hyde-White
Fisher, Inspector of Accidents (uncredited)
Felix Aylmer
Kenneth More
Janette Scott
Elspeth Honey
Elizabeth Allan
Shirley Scott
Karl Stepanek
Niall MacGinnis
Alan Gifford
Dora Bryan
John Salew
Ronald Squire
Sir John, Director
Tom Gill
Marcel Poncin
Hugh Wakefield
David Hutcheson
Hugh Cross
Philip Vickers
Jill Clifford
Peggy, Stewardess
Douglas Bradley-Smith
Basil Appleby
Hilda Campbell-Russell
Plane Passenger
Robert Dickens
Mabel Etherington
Maxwell Foster
Gerald Kent
Hector MacGregor
Stuart Nichol
Roy Russell
Wilfred Walter

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