No Highway in the Sky

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British film disaster film drama film film

No Highway in the Sky is a 1951 British disaster-drama film, based on Nevil Shute’s novel, about an eccentric engineer who predicts a catastrophic structural failure in a new airliner.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf British film ⓘ
disaster film ⓘ
drama film ⓘ
film ⓘ
alternateTitle No Highway ⓘ
basedOn No Highway ⓘ
basedOnAuthor Nevil Shute ⓘ
blackAndWhite true ⓘ
character Marjorie Corder ⓘ
Monica Teasdale ⓘ
Theodore Honey ⓘ
cinematographyBy Geoffrey Unsworth ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom ⓘ
director Henry Koster ⓘ
disasterTypeDepicted airliner structural failure ⓘ
distributor 20th Century Fox ⓘ
editedBy Monica Kimick ⓘ
era 1950s British cinema ⓘ
genre aviation film ⓘ
disaster ⓘ
drama ⓘ
leadActress Marlene Dietrich ⓘ
medium theatrical film ⓘ
musicBy Malcolm Arnold ⓘ
originalLanguage English ⓘ
plotSummary An eccentric aeronautical engineer predicts catastrophic structural failure in a new transatlantic airliner type. ⓘ
producer Louis D. Lighton ⓘ
productionCompany 20th Century Fox ⓘ
releaseYear 1951 ⓘ
runtimeMinutes 98 ⓘ
screenwriter Oscar Millard ⓘ
R. C. Sherriff ⓘ
setting island of Newfoundland ⓘ
surface form: Newfoundland

United Kingdom ⓘ
transatlantic flight ⓘ
sourceMaterialPublicationYear 1948 ⓘ
starring Glynis Johns ⓘ
Hermione Baddeley ⓘ
Jack Hawkins ⓘ
James Stewart ⓘ
Janette Scott ⓘ
Marlene Dietrich ⓘ
theme air safety ⓘ
bureaucracy versus expertise ⓘ
engineering ethics ⓘ

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Henry Koster → notableWork → No Highway in the Sky ⓘ
Hermann Kosterlitz → notableWork → No Highway in the Sky ⓘ