No Highway

No Highway

1951 · 98 min · EN · 6.9 (50 votes)
Dir. Henry Koster · Starring James Stewart, Glynis Johns, Marlene Dietrich, Janette Scott, Jack Hawkins, Elizabeth Allan · Music Malcolm Arnold

EXCITEMENT and SUSPENSE 18,000 Feet Over the Atlantic!

Drama

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.

VIBE

A slow-burn thriller where intellectual rigor clashes with corporate denial. It’s a tense, almost claustrophobic ride, anchored by a brilliant performance, making you question the human cost of progress and the terrifying fragility of trust in technology.

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stewardessaeronautical engineeraerospace
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