No Highway (1951)
June 28, 1951Release Date
No Highway (1951)
June 28, 1951Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
James Stewart
Theodore Honey
Marlene Dietrich
Monica Teasdale
Glynis Johns
Marjorie Corder
Jack Hawkins
Dennis Scott
Janette Scott
Elspeth Honey
Elizabeth Allan
Shirley Scott
Wilfrid Hyde-White
Fisher, Inspector of Accidents (uncredited)
Ronald Squire
Sir John - Director
Jill Clifford
Peggy - Stewardess
Bessie Love
Plane Passenger (uncredited)
Basil Appleby
Second Engineer
Felix Aylmer
Sir Philip
Henry Koster
Director
Nevil Shute
Writer
R.C. Sherriff
Writer
Hilda Campbell-Russell
Plane Passenger
Oscar Millard
Writer
Alec Coppel
Writer
Louis D. Lighton
Producer
Georges Périnal
Cinematographer
Manuel del Campo
Editor
Malcolm Arnold
Original Music Composer
Buster Ambler
Sound Recordist
Christian Dior
Costume Design
Margaret Furse
Wardrobe Supervisor
C.P. Norman
Art Direction
Arthur Evans
Still Photographer
Arthur Allighan
Publicist
Gerald Kent
Niall MacGinnis
Hector MacGregor
Hugh Cross
Maurice Denham
Robert Dickens
Alan Gifford
Karl Stepanek
Philip Vickers
Hugh Wakefield
Wilfred Walter
Mabel Etherington
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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.