

28/06/1951
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.

James Stewart
as Theodore Honey

Glynis Johns
as Marjorie Corder

Marlene Dietrich
as Monica Teasdale

Janette Scott
as Elspeth Honey

Jack Hawkins
as Dennis Scott

Elizabeth Allan
as Shirley Scott

Ronald Squire
as Sir John, Director

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

Bessie Love
as Plane Passenger (uncredited)

Jill Clifford
as Peggy, Stewardess

Felix Aylmer
as

Douglas Bradley-Smith
as

Basil Appleby
as

Dora Bryan
as

Hilda Campbell-Russell
as Plane Passenger

Hugh Cross
as

Maurice Denham
as

Robert Dickens
as

Mabel Etherington
as

Maxwell Foster
as

Alan Gifford
as

Tom Gill
as

David Hutcheson
as

Gerald Kent
as

Niall MacGinnis
as

Hector MacGregor
as

Kenneth More
as

Stuart Nichol
as

Marcel Poncin
as

Roy Russell
as

John Salew
as

Karl Stepanek
as

Philip Vickers
as

Hugh Wakefield
as

Wilfred Walter
as
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