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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