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No Highway in the Sky (1951) was a Drama - Thriller/Suspense Film directed by Henry Koster and produced by Louis D. Lighton.

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NO HIGHWAY IN THE SKY On Blu-ray From Kino

By Dan Day Jr. on Feb 14, 2017 From The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog

It's another classic film release from Kino Lorber, this time a somewhat obscure feature starring the one and only James Stewart. NO HIGHWAY IN THE SKY (1951) has Stewart as a fidgety aeronautics expert named Theodore Honey. Based in England, Honey is convinced that a new type of airplane known as ... Read full article


No Highway in the Sky (1951)

By Beatrice on Aug 18, 2015 From Flickers in Time

No Highway in the Sky Directed by Henry Koster Written by R.C. Sherriff, Oscar Millard, and Alec Coppel from a novel by Nevil Shute 1951/UK Twentieth Century Fox Productions First viewing/Amazon Instant This one came out of nowhere to delight me. Widower Theodore Honey (James Stewart) is the ve... Read full article


No Highway in the Sky ( 1951 )

By The Metzinger Sisters on Apr 16, 2014 From Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers

When No Highway in the Sky was released in 1951, James Stewart had established a reputation for playing everyday heroes and champions of social justice in such films as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ) and The Mortal Storm ( 1940 ). In this British-made film, based on a novel by Nevil Shute (... Read full article


No Highway in the Sky ( 1951 )

By The Metzinger Sisters on Apr 16, 2014 From Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers

When No Highway in the Sky was released in 1951, James Stewart had already established a reputation for playing everyday heroes and champions of social justice in such films as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ) and The Mortal Storm ( 1940 ). In this British-made film, based on a novel by Nevil... Read full article


No Highway in the Sky ( 1951 )

By The Metzinger Sisters on Apr 16, 2014 From Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers

When No Highway in the Sky was released in 1951, James Stewart had already established a reputation for playing everyday heroes and champions of social justice in such films as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ) and The Mortal Storm ( 1940 ). In this British-made film, based on a novel by Nevil... Read full article


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Monica Teasdale: All the people who'll come to my funeral, that'll be quite an occasion.
Theodore Honey: Do you have a family, Miss Teasdale?
Monica Teasdale: No, not even a husband at the moment, but there's my agent. oh he'll be so sad, he had five more years at 10%. Then there's Lorene Calvart, oh she'll cry the most. She'll give a beautiful performance, and then she'll try to get the part in the picture I was going to make. I suppose that's why I don't feel the way I thought I would.


Marjorie Corder: Just what was it that you think you did wrong? You did think there'd be a crash didn't you?
Theodore Honey: Yes but what I should have done is offer my hypothesis to the captain in an orderly manner and let him make his own decision but I didn't do that. No, when they wouldn't listen to me I kept thinking about you lying dead in Labrador like that other stewardess and Miss Teasdale, and all the rest of them and I wasn't orderly at all. not at all and the lever was right th ere so I *keh* pulled it.
Marjorie Corder: Amd that seemed wrong to you.
Theodore Honey: Of course it seemed wrong. How is anybody going to take my work seriously if I go around doing things like that? you know they're saying that I'm crazy now? And I don't blame them.
Marjorie Corder: You don't mean that if you had it all to do again, you'd just let it go ahead and crash.
Theodore Honey: That's just the point, I'd probably do it all again.


Sir Philip: Scotty, meet Rosie, she's a spy. Wait till you see her bedroom, it's absolutely papered in blueprints.


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The concept of an airliner suffering catastrophic failure due to metal fatigue after a certain number of flight cycles, as outlined in the 1948 novel and this 1951 film, came true with the failures of the de Havilland Comet in 1954. There are a number of eerie parallels between the fictional account and the later actual events.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie onApril 28, 1952 with James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich reprising their film roles.
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