James Stewart is an "absent minded professor" type working at a British aviation company. He discovers that the company's latest model plane has a tail that will literally fall off of the plane after 1400 hours of flight. While flying to investigate a plane crash in Labrador, Stewart realizes that the plane they are on is probably close to crashing due to stress and fatigue that flying has placed on the plane's tale. The film involves Stewart's attempts to avoid disaster.
No Highway In The Sky with the exception of James Stewart, the producer Lewis Leighton, the director Henry Koster and Marlene Dietrich is basically a British film. It was shot entirely by British technicians in England and features an outstanding cast of British actors such as Glynis Johns, Kenneth More, Jack Hawkins, Niall MacGinnis and Felix Aylmer. James Stewart does his usual "aw shucks" acting thing but even if he's played this type of character before he does it very well. Stewart had been a pilot during World War II so he definitely knew a thing about airplanes.
The film re teamed Stewart with Marlene Dietrich. They had first worked together in Destry Rides Again, but this time Dietrich's part as a glamorous Hollywood star seems more a supporting role. Glynis Johns is really the female lead.
This is commercial film making at it's very best. A good story, a great cast and a top notch production team.
The film was written by three talented writers, R. C. Sherriff, Oscar Millard and Alec Coppel. The running time is 98 minutes. Again, an excellent drama.
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