No Highway in the Sky | English Full Movie | Drama Thriller
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In a suspenseful thriller, an aeronautical engineer predicts a catastrophic failure in a cutting-edge aircraft after a specific number of flying hours. As he battles corporate deceit and skepticism from his peers, the film unfolds a high-stakes narrative of suspense and corporate intrigue.
Starring: James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Glynis Johns.
Directed By: Henry Koster.
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Jimmy is a true legend.
At first, I did not think that I was going to like it, but then I couldn't stop watching. What a great film.
Read the original Nevil Shute novel-it’s equally exceptional.
I saw this as a child and didn’t realize how funny Fred Macmurry was. Glynis John passed just recently. Loved this film!
I'm past 70 years old. Look how careful the stewardesses were back then. How kind and nurturing. This is literally "gone with the wind." And Jimmy Stewart is amazing, he and Marlene Dietrich were incredible, not to mention the sweet stewardess who starred in other great films. Hmmm... "We're going to throw things at the Prime Minister!" "Our daughters daughters will adore us - as they say in grateful chorus - well done, Madame Suffragette!"
Stewardess on Asian airlines come very close.
James Stewart was born to play people like Mr Honey. This is maybe the most Jimmy Stewart he got, full aspergers syndrome. Beautiful work, with wonderful Marlene Dietrich and Glynis Johns to keep him company.
Stewart and Johns were husband and wife in Dear Brigitte.
Stewart played an absent-minded poet.
Notice the square windows...several years later windows corner metal fatigue would be disastrous for The Comet. Kind of like art uncannily peering into the future. Enough of that though, always wonderful when Jimmy Stewart is on screen.
James Stewart an amazing actor and ww2 hero!
One of my very favorites.....James [Jimmy] Stewart].....an iconic actor of the Golden Age of Hollywood. Loved him in Shenandoah!
Yes, it is 70+ yrs old but it remains one of my favorite Jimmy Stewart films (Jack Hawkins and Glynis Johns certainly don’t hurt!). It combines airplane technology with the dramatic tension of the absentminded professor who’s convinced a disaster is imminent.
But…hey, it’s Jimmy Stewart! I’d watch him describe different colors of paint chips.
and Marline Dietrich
1951 may be in the shadow of the Comet Crashes.
What a wonderful film ...Marlene Dietrich ,Jimmie Stewart...that great stewardess No wonder I love these celluloid classics !!
Glynis Johns played the stewardess. Long career in film, and passed in January of 2024 at 100. She played the mother in Mary Poppins!
Sadly they don't make movie's like this anymore,,. brilliant
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Marlene Dietrich, Glynis Johns-----overall great cast.
What an interesting movie. I kinda wished they made the ending a bit more dramatic or at least extended it a bit. Really liked all the actors and actresses in this and it was fascinating to see the inside of a passenger plane as it was designed back in 1951 which is when the film premiered. I so enjoyed watching this. Thanks for posting☺♥
For a more in-depth take on this, I'd recommend the book on which this is based - 'No Highway' by Neville Shute. So much fascinating and well crafted detail has been squeezed out in the film version.
Anything with James Stewart gets an automatic like from me. I miss this era.
Always such a True *_CLASSIC_* Oldie But Goody.....!!! 👌
Near perfectly cast from A-to-Z..... with Double Delight roles from wonderful Glynis Johns and ever so 'punctuating' Marlene Dietrich.... 👏
Even 13 year old Janette Scott delivers a 'spotless' performance!!!! 😇
This has to be one of Jimmy Stewart's best roles. I love this quirky Mr. Honey.
I love how the tied up everything at the end so dreadfully quick
1:28:28 "Did the tail fall off, Father?"
"No, dear, I'm afraid it didn't..."
"Don't worry, it will, someday..."
Beautifully paced movie.
How to marry Science and Humanity, and lots in between.❤
Loved Jimmy's performance. Played the preoccupied, absent-minded genius to the T. And sound, restrained acting all round.
Thank you, GEM!
This was fantastic viewing! Wow! An amazing movie, great plot, great dialogue. Just a pity it wasn't uploaded with intro and ending. The acting is phenomenal. Ever grateful!
Was watching a video on the Oceangate sub regarding the various failures and it reminded me of this movie. It must be at least 15-20 years since I'd seen it and it was only the last 40minutes or so but I was glad to find it here to watch the whole thing.
Neville Shute wrote this book a few years before the Comet disasters. What he wrote more or less happened. This is one of my favourite books. Mr Honey is described as short and frog like, with weak, moist eyes but very kind and intelligent.
Every time I open a tin and break off that last attachment the tin opener misses, by wiggling the lid back and forth I think “that’s metal fatigue”
Shute was a very special writer. “No Highway” and “On the Beach” are exceptional novels. Ernest K. Gann also wrote excellent novels with aviation as a backdrop. I highly recommend “Island in the Sky”.
As a boy, I was particularly struck by the relationship between Stewart and Glynis Johns. Their performances are especially sensitive and fine, and the film retains a certain potency that is in large part thanks to these noteworthy actors.
Nicely put.
Anyone else find this emotional throughout? And humorous? And the dialogue incredible? AND the Teasdale character captivating? It's a 70+ yo movie, wtf!?!?
A fantastic film. We should all strive to treat each other in such a manner.
It’s a great show with all the talent. The daughter seems sad and that’s what made me sad too
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Yes folkes, entertainment, science, glamour, suspense all rolled into one, and décades of this quality stored up on VHS, DVD and now youtube, thank you for taking time to post. All this is now vintage, like best wine.
What a wonderful movie!!!
one of Jimmies best
It's one of my favourites.
It’s a very good movie which I’ve seen before on another channel but it’s good to see it again on this channel and thus support all the channels which spoil us with movies of quality and substance .
Jack Hawkins, a stalwart of British Cinema....
……& the possessor of a beautiful voice …………
Indeed Elizabeth @@elizabethroberts6215
so very appropriate to have Jimmy Stewart Keeping it together in a plane that might not make it. He flew somewhere around 25 combat missions during the war,
Love James Stewart. Never seen or heard of this film before so glad I happened upon it here.
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I love these old movies. It's a break from the bombardment of special effects, the totally useless sex scenes and the poor dialogue that goes nowhere.
Some of the best books were based on fine, highly literate novels (in this case, based on a book by Nevil Shute, who wrote “On the Beach”, a story of nuclear Armageddon).
Based on the Nevil Shute book No Highway. Shute was a real aero engineer, his autobiography Slide Rule is fascinating
That's where I first read this story, one of my first real reading books.
And I Sr am a dreadful crazy for all of Neville Shute's books and movies..
Seeing Jack Hawkins in the film, I should have thought it would be quite good, Kenneth Moore as well...😊Bacon and eggs alright? by all means...
Fantastic Classic. First time seeing this movie. Fine Actors and actresses. Thank you for the upload.
"It’s evidently quite difficult to be a person, Miss Corder." Truth.
The fabulous, late grey Glynis Johns
……don’t you mean ‘great’……
Grey hair ?
This is a truly wonderful film thankyou.
Marlene dressed to kill in furs and diamonds to fly, now its jumbos in velour tracksuits. My how society has declined. 🙄🙄😁 Thank for sharing.
When we were an aviation superpower. Along with so many other lost industries
Had WWII computers not been a state secret, Britain would have had a 'Silicon Valley'.
That and mistreating Alan Turing.
Enjoyed this very much! Stewart laying it on a bit thick with the nerd autistic engineer act......however the script was tragically ahead of its time. Fatigue failure was to doom a number of the British Comet airliners before they resolved it.......not so long after the film was released. Lovely and different story.
Yes somehow I agreed and knew it was the temperature too as if I would have known prior. You will know what I'm referring too. Beautiful movie. Must watch. What a lovely Daughter Elizabeth what a fine young lady. God Bless her
Neville Shute (Norway), a great Author who had worked with Barnes Wallace on the R100 Airship. He was also the aircraft manufacturer of the Air Speed Oxford writing this storey prior to the DH Comet metal fatigue disasters.
This was a great movie. Thank you so much!
A perfectly slendid movie!
They went all the way not to draw any comparison with an actual aircraft by inventing the worlds ugliest plane.
Love the Mahogany veneer on the instrument panel 😅
Nice to see old friends again
Johns lived to be 100. Just died Jan. 4 of this year!
Really enjoyed this film, thanks xx
Thank you for uploading, but where are the opening titles and credits?Its really incomplete without!!
Avoids copywrite issues
Most actors in this movie were uncredited according to IMDB including Dora Bryant, Wilfred Hyde-White, Kenneth More and others
Not a mention about Elsbeth, wouldn't it be wonderful if the young could speak like that again.
Crazy looking plane>>!! 🤦🏻♂️😅 Terrific cast… 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🤙🏻 The cockpit is like a living room!!
I loved the cockpit.......there was probably a chandelier for lighting and a sofa and grand piano at the back. Still safer than the latest Boeing aircraft though.
I liked when he described his daughter: "She's well-developed and has an excellent grasp of crystallography."
Very interesting film. Most of the engineering was good. Fatigue is a major problem
Most of the plot was silly - the aircraft would have been grounded until the tail unit was found and examined- most movies are childish rubbish ! The tail unit was miles away koz it broke off first -
The science was so 1950's . Nuclear fission in the aluminum atom?
The first minute-plus (including the credits) is cut off. Colorized version of this film (also here on TH-cam) is complete.
I really don’t like colourised versions but helpful information.
From Neville Shute's book Neville Shute under proper name Neville Shute Norway was a famous aircraft and airship designer a coworker of Barnes Wallis
Excellent!
They don’t make them like they used to. Good Stuff…”Christology,” moral standards, esthetics, and ethics. A great education regarding what a good person and a good life is.
No profanity or blasphemy, keeps your attention the whole time
17:00 ......ashe walks out the door, he is thinking...."that man is absolutely Krackers".
A wonderful movie
Yep worth a watch
Mainly because it was such a superb Nevil Shute novel (author of “On the Beach”).
It really makes you wonder if you knew for a certainty that the plane was going to crash would you do something as rash as he did?
No good hiding on the floor of the gents - kiss your bum good bye is best !
@@JollySchwaggermann I don't know. There was Asiana flight 214 that crashed in San Francisco. All but 3 people lived, and they were possible killed on the ground because they fire trucks couldn't see them as they were covered in foam.
Airplane crashes are much more survivable than people think.
That said, if the tail falls off... yeah, you're likely screwed.
Delightful.
They do not make them lke that anymore.
Considering they had no video or rewind button, no computer editing or cgi, I think it's amazing that their shooting was seamless and the continuity excellent when they had no idea how a shot would turn out until it was in the editing suite/cutting room and all spliced back together after the film was developed in a dark room. Many modern day films are quite shoddy by comparison with shaky camera work reminding us all the time there's a room full of crew behind the lens. I find these old movies quite immersive.
@@habsom1406You can also hear what everyone is saying unlike many modern films.
Jimmie Stewart.. he once had a line in a western which was...I like my steaks burnt on the outside and rare in the middle....thats how I like mine !!!
The movie was "The Cheyenne Social Club" with Henry Fonda as a co-star.
thank you ...@@larrywhited3070
Life imitating art this was before the Comet tragedies that rocked the dehavilland company and boac three years later.
So, my Dad worked at Lockheed for decades. Testing similar to what was outlined in the movie is now pretty standard stuff. And the part at the very end, about it not being cold enough... yup, that's in there as well.
It has been suggested that the author of the book, Nevill Shute was influenced by the crash of the Douglas C-54E in 1946 in Newfoundland
never thought jack hawkins a james stewart starred in same film.
Terrific--TY
If all little girls were like elsbeth
Wish they wouldn’t add things that are not in the book and leave out good things that are. Oh well. I’ll just enjoy the film for what it is and forget I’ve read the book. It’s one of my favourite Nevil Shutes along with “A Town Like Alice “ and “On The Beach" and Trustee From The Toolroom." All well worth reading.
I'm reading it right now, he's one of my favorite authors. I'm right at the bit where they're about to send Mr. Honey off to Labrador.
Nevil Shute was a very special author of fiction-he was trained in aeronautical engineering if I’m not mistaken.
I first saw this as a child on TV. Is there any idea of when it was first shown on US TV?
1:32:28 work for boeing and talk like that and you'll find yourself not long for this mortal coil
I remember a 50,s film where a plane is flying and suddenly it has metal fatigue and all the passengers bail out while it fly's around an airfield to use up fuel And I thought this was it
Any parachutes ?
Terrific
I always find Jimmy Stewart overacts almost to the point of being a ham, but he IS fascinating on screen
Marlene Dietrich had a interesting life. Just seen a video about her.
Air Ministry Constabulary at the start I am guessing? In the uniforms?
Glynis Johns my Queen xxx
Beware no credits
shame about the hurried 3 minute ending
Heard a merlin v12 when he invited him in for a sherry 😊
Is that British DJ Pete Murray working in the cockpit ?
Yep .
But the whole plane is made out of the doubtful metal so the whole plane is subject to vibration fracture not just the tail. And why did miss Teasdale call Honey a little man twice when Stewart is about 6 foot 2
Possibly because in the book Honey was not tall
The outcome would have been the same anyway. Honey specified the fracture would be in the tail but really, the fracture could have occurred anywhere. But I would imagine the greatest stress would be on the wing and the tail section.
@@KebabMusicLtdI think they made the tail look unlike anything you'd normally see in order that nobody would think this could really happen.
Structural metal fatigue is not so much what it is made of, but what the natural vibration frequency of it is which can amplify stress to failure. Honey suspected the tail plane natural vibration frequency would match stresses encountered in normal flight and cause failure over time. He was applying stresses of various frequencies to a tail plane mock up to test his theory. The Lockheed Electra had this problem with its #3 engine nacelle which caused it to fall off until the design was changed.
This is from the Wikipedia article on the film: "Three years after the film, and six years after the publication of Nevil Shute's original novel (No Highway), there were two fatal crashes of the world's first jet passenger airliner, the de Havilland Comet. Investigation found that metal fatigue was the cause of both accidents, albeit in the main fuselage and not the tail section."
1:03:17 New title: "Man Kills Aeroplane."
Watched to the very end for the honeymoon athletics - Jimmy and the little Sheila. A clumsy fumble - she would have to take control-fatigue in the bed frame ?😅
Is there not a book by Neville Shute "No Highway"
This was based on that book
Oh, Martin Luther made a splendid second career.
Reminds me of william shatner in his gremlin on the wing episode in the twlight zone.
I saw that movie as a kid, and got creepily scared
LOL a commercial aircraft with passenger cabin windows that have right angles!!! 😂
Yup - film 1951. De Havilland Comet designed, with lovely big *SQUARE* picture windows and cut outs, 1949 - introduced 1952 (one year after the film) - first hull loss attributed to fuselage failure due to metal fatigue 1954... I'd say that the film was rather prescient!
Dilly Dilly!! Similar story about metal fatigue except the Comet had to do with stress on the airframe from multi pressuration cycles
It's so weird to see the amount of time people spent sucking on cigarettes.
Go to places like Istanbul and see people still to this day smoking like chimneys.
All these comments rocked me amadeus.⭐️
Amazing how roomie airplanes were back in the day….
Especially the ones on movie sets!
And all that glass!!!
Today - smaller seats = more fare paying passengers !
She soon changed her mind when she saw the cash.
All cars have faults . I have leaf spy for my leaf so can clear faults . I would deffo get the equivalent for emgee which is what I would call my 5
MG 5 ?
It's the guy out of the rocking horse winner🐎 film 🎥
at 1 hour 17min 45 sec he spills crap on himself.
Buncha stars
De que año es.boludo
Wait till Elsbeth meets Brian Jones. That'll be the end of her. Or maybe the end of Jonesy.
Pre-Duct tape
....or bostik.
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