No Highway in the Sky
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| Directed by | Henry Koster |
| Produced by | Louis D. Lighton |
| Written by |
Alec Coppel Oscar Millard R. C. Sherriff |
| Based on |
No Highway 1948 novel by Nevil Shute |
| Starring |
James Stewart Marlene Dietrich Glynis Johns Jack Hawkins |
| Music by | Malcolm Arnold |
| Cinematography | Georges Périnal |
| Edited by | Manuel del Campo |
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Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.
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| Distributed by | Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. |
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Running time
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98 min. |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $1,150,000 (US rentals) |
No Highway in the Sky (also known as 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 and Marlene Dietrich, Glynis Johns, Niall MacGinnis and Jack Hawkins. The screenplay was written by Oscar Millard, with additional material provided by Alec Coppel.
The film is based on the novel No Highway by Nevil Shute and was one of the first films that depicted a potential aviation disaster involving metal fatigue. Although the film follows Shute's original 1948 novel closely, No Highway in the Sky notably omits references to the supernatural contained in the original novel, including the use of automatic writing to resolve a key element in the original novel's story.
Theodore Honey (James Stewart), an eccentric "boffin" with the Royal Aircraft Establishment, is working on solving a difficult aviation crash problem. A widower with a 12-year-old daughter, Elspeth (Janette Scott), Honey is sent from Farnborough to investigate the crash of a Rutland Reindeer airliner in Labrador, Canada. He theorizes the accident happened because of the tailplane's structural failure, caused by sudden metal fatigue after 1440 flight hours. To test the theory in his laboratory, a rear airframe is being vibrated at a very high rate in daily eight-hour cycles.
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