Synopsis
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
Douglas Bradley-Smith
Basil Appleby
Dora Bryan
Hilda Campbell-Russell
Plane Passenger
Hugh Cross
Maurice Denham
Robert Dickens
Mabel Etherington
Maxwell Foster
Alan Gifford
Tom Gill
David Hutcheson
Gerald Kent
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