No Highway

No Highway

98 mins | Drama | June 28, 1951

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.

No Highway

98 mins | Drama | June 28, 1951

No Highway
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.
IMDb rating 7.1
Producers 20th Century Fox
Original title No Highway
Directors Henry Koster
Writers Nevil Shute, Oscar Millard, R.C. Sherriff, Alec Coppel

Cast

James Stewart

as Theodore Honey

Glynis Johns

as Marjorie Corder

Marlene Dietrich

as Monica Teasdale

Janette Scott

as Elspeth Honey

Jack Hawkins

as Dennis Scott

Elizabeth Allan

as Shirley Scott

Ronald Squire

as Sir John, Director

Wilfrid Hyde-White

as Fisher, Inspector of Accidents (uncredited)

Bessie Love

as Plane Passenger (uncredited)

Jill Clifford

as Peggy, Stewardess

Hilda Campbell-Russell

as Plane Passenger