No Highway in the Sky

No Highway in the Sky

EXCITEMENT and SUSPENSE 18,000 Feet Over the Atlantic!

195198 min7.0 / 10

A taut mid-century thriller about a brilliant but dismissed engineer racing against time to prevent a catastrophe he alone understands, trapped aboard the very aircraft he fears.

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.

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