No Highway in the Sky (1951)
June 28, 1951Release Date
No Highway in the Sky (1951)
June 28, 1951Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
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
Philip Ashley
Flight Officer
Felix Aylmer
Hilda Campbell-Russell
Plane Passenger
Buster Ambler
Sound Recordist
Margaret Furse
Wardrobe Supervisor
Henry Koster
Director
Nevil Shute
Novel
R.C. Sherriff
Writer
Oscar Millard
Writer
Alec Coppel
Writer
Georges Périnal
Director of Photography
Malcolm Arnold
Original Music Composer
C.P. Norman
Art Direction
Christian Dior
Costume Design
Arthur Evans
Still Photographer
Arthur Allighan
Publicist
Louis D. Lighton
Producer
Manuel del Campo
Editor
Niall MacGinnis
Gerald Kent
Dora Bryan
Hector MacGregor
Basil Appleby
Hugh Cross
Maurice Denham
Robert Dickens
Alan Gifford
Karl Stepanek
Philip Vickers
Hugh Wakefield
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No Highway in the Sky (also known as No Highway) is a 1951 black-and-white aviation drama film directed by Henry Koster from a screenplay by R. C. Sherriff, Oscar Millard, and Alec Coppel, based on the 1948 novel No Highway by Nevil Shute. The film stars James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Glynis Johns, Jack Hawkins, Janette Scott, Elizabeth Allan, Ronald Squire, and Jill Clifford.
It was one of the first films that depicted a potential aviation disaster involving metal fatigue. Although the film follows the plot of Shute's novel in general, 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. Also, the role of Scott, the recently appointed administrator who narrates the novel, is curtailed in the film version; which means that the featured scientist, Mr Honey, comes across as more eccentric than in the novel, changing the relationship between them.
The film also introduces the term "boffin" for the under-appreciated and seemingly self-centred and eccentric scientist, as distinct from earlier usage to describe a scientist who is making vital (and appreciated) contributions.