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.
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James Stewart as Theodore Honey
Glynis Johns as Marjorie Corder
Marlene Dietrich as Monica Teasdale
Janette Scott as Elspeth Honey
Jack Hawkins as Dennis Scott
Elizabeth Allan as Shirley Scott
Ronald Squire as Sir John, Director
Wilfrid Hyde-White as Fisher, Inspector of Accidents (uncredited)
Bessie Love as Plane Passenger (uncredited)
Jill Clifford as Peggy, Stewardess
Felix Aylmer as
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Basil Appleby as
Dora Bryan as
Hilda Campbell-Russell as Plane Passenger
Hugh Cross as
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Gerald Kent as
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Hector MacGregor as
Kenneth More as
Stuart Nichol as
Marcel Poncin as
Roy Russell as
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Philip Vickers as
Hugh Wakefield as
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