
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.
Cast

James Stewart
Theodore Honey

Glynis Johns
Marjorie Corder

Marlene Dietrich
Monica Teasdale

Janette Scott
Elspeth Honey

Jack Hawkins
Dennis Scott

Elizabeth Allan
Shirley Scott

Ronald Squire
Sir John, Director

Wilfrid Hyde-White
Fisher, Inspector of Accidents (uncredited)

Bessie Love
Plane Passenger (uncredited)
Jill Clifford
Peggy, Stewardess

Felix Aylmer
Unknown
Douglas Bradley-Smith
Unknown
Basil Appleby
Unknown

Dora Bryan
Unknown
Hilda Campbell-Russell
Plane Passenger

Hugh Cross
Unknown

Maurice Denham
Unknown
Robert Dickens
Unknown
Mabel Etherington
Unknown
Maxwell Foster
Unknown

Alan Gifford
Unknown

Tom Gill
Unknown

David Hutcheson
Unknown
Gerald Kent
Unknown

Niall MacGinnis
Unknown
Hector MacGregor
Unknown

Kenneth More
Unknown
Stuart Nichol
Unknown

Marcel Poncin
Unknown
Roy Russell
Unknown

John Salew
Unknown

Karl Stepanek
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Philip Vickers
Unknown

Hugh Wakefield
Unknown
Wilfred Walter
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Crew

Henry Koster
Director
Oscar Millard
Writer
Alec Coppel
Writer
R.C. Sherriff
Writer

Nevil Shute
Novel
Manuel del Campo
Editor

Georges Périnal
Director of Photography
Louis D. Lighton
Producer
Margaret Furse
Wardrobe Supervisor

Christian Dior
Costume Design
Buster Ambler
Sound Recordist

Malcolm Arnold
Original Music Composer
Arthur Evans
Still Photographer
Arthur Allighan
Publicist
C.P. Norman
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