No Highway in the Sky
1951 · 98 MIN · IMDB 7.1 · 4,692 VOTES · DIR. Henry Koster
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,450 lines
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00:01:23 Oh, yes. Mr. Scott.
00:05:20 Good night, Mr. honey.
00:09:25 It needs some... elspeth, will you entertain Mr...
00:12:41 Elspeth, what have you done with Mr. Scott there?
00:16:40 Yes, but you know, of course, that an aircraft in commercial service...
00:20:26 Oh, Mr. penworthy!
00:23:47 Good-bye, daddy. Good-bye, dear.
00:28:32 Oh, so you're on her side.
00:32:38 What's all this about? I understand you're not very happy about something.
00:38:21 Miss teasdale? Miss teasdale?
00:41:45 I think that crisis is over now, miss teasdale. I don't think it'll happen again.
00:45:17 Yes, miss teasdale. Good. We can all stop worrying who's going to sit where.
00:49:07 That'll be quite an occasion.
00:53:20 So it is. The stars are out.
00:58:32 You mean, you really believe it's going to crash whether they find anything or not?
01:03:06 I don't think there's any doubt about that. Tell me why...
01:06:40 No, no. I'm not at all prepared to assume he's a lunatic. At least, not yet.
01:09:45 He gave me his reasons, and they were good enough for me.
01:14:05 and this is the difficult part, Mr. Honey, so I'll put it bluntly.
01:18:23 I wasn't orderly at all... not at all... and the lever was right there so I pulled it.
01:22:05 Funny that a kid like you would bother to see so much in anybody like him.
01:27:12 and then they'll reject the whole thing.
01:30:56 Well, do you mind being a swot?
01:34:47 You didn't. Well, I couldn't just sit there, could I?
Cast & Characters
James Stewart
Theodore Honey
Marlene Dietrich
Monica Teasdale
Glynis Johns
Marjorie Corder
Jack Hawkins
Dennis Scott
Janette Scott
Elspeth Honey
Elizabeth Allan
Shirley Scott
Ronald Squire
Sir John - Director
Jill Clifford
Peggy - Stewardess
Basil Appleby
Second Engineer
Philip Ashley
Flight Officer
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,450
Dialogue density14.8 lines / min
First line00:01:23
Final line01:34:47
Production Record
DirectorHenry Koster
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes4,692