{"id":75322,"date":"2021-09-02T14:04:09","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T21:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=75322"},"modified":"2022-08-16T22:00:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T05:00:51","slug":"no-highway-in-the-sky-1951","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=75322","title":{"rendered":"No Highway in the Sky (1951)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;People must be someone else&#8217;s concern; I can&#8217;t let it be mine, Mr. Scott!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/No-Highway-in-the-Sky-Poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/No-Highway-in-the-Sky-Poster-198x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-75323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/No-Highway-in-the-Sky-Poster-198x300.png 198w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/No-Highway-in-the-Sky-Poster-677x1024.png 677w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/No-Highway-in-the-Sky-Poster-85x128.png 85w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/No-Highway-in-the-Sky-Poster-179x270.png 179w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/No-Highway-in-the-Sky-Poster.png 731w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nAfter explaining to his new boss (Jack Hawkins) that a type of airplane known as the &#8220;Reindeer&#8221; will fail after a certain number of flight hours (due to metal fatigue), a widowed aeronautical engineer (Jimmy Stewart) leaves his self-sufficient daughter (Janette Scott) at home while traveling to investigate a crash. When onboard his flight, he discovers he&#8217;s on a Reindeer that is near its presumably fatal number of flying hours, and tries to convince a kind stewardess (Glynis Johns), a famous actress (Marlene Dietrich), and the captain (Niall McGinnis) that they need to ground the plane &#8212; but he struggles to get anyone to believe him.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Airplanes and Pilots<\/li>\n<li>Glynis Johns Films<\/li>\n<li>Jack Hawkins Films<\/li>\n<li>Jimmy Stewart Films<\/li>\n<li>Marlene Dietrich Films<\/li>\n<li>Niall MacGinnis Films<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;No One Will Believe Me!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Scientists<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nJimmy Stewart is perfectly cast as a socially awkward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/boffin\">&#8216;boffin&#8217;<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/No_Highway\">Nevil Shute&#8217;s 1948 novel <em>No Highway<\/em><\/a>, which was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-ckZk5BGcAo\">scarily prescient in its diagnosis of metal fatigue as a potentially fatal characteristic of new aircraft<\/a>. We&#8217;re kept on the edge of our seats from moment to moment as we wait to learn what will happen. Given that we&#8217;re clearly meant to sympathize with this eccentric scientist:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/No-Highway-in-the-Sky-Stewart5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/No-Highway-in-the-Sky-Stewart5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/No-Highway-in-the-Sky-Stewart5.png 640w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/No-Highway-in-the-Sky-Stewart5-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/No-Highway-in-the-Sky-Stewart5-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/No-Highway-in-the-Sky-Stewart5-360x270.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; we feel weirdly terrible for him when he&#8217;s treated with bemusement or scorn rather than respect. Will his predictions come true? If so, how awful&#8230; and yet, if not, then what? Dietrich nicely plays a variation on herself, and is compelling in all of her brief scenes:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/No-Highway-Dietrich-Plane.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/No-Highway-Dietrich-Plane.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75701\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/No-Highway-Dietrich-Plane.png 640w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/No-Highway-Dietrich-Plane-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/No-Highway-Dietrich-Plane-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/No-Highway-Dietrich-Plane-360x270.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s especially interesting seeing how her character evolves (quite substantially) over the course of the story. Equally enjoyable is Johns as a stewardess who simply emanates good will (don&#8217;t we wish all flight attendants were like her?): <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/No-Highway-Johns2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/No-Highway-Johns2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75702\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/No-Highway-Johns2.png 640w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/No-Highway-Johns2-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/No-Highway-Johns2-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/No-Highway-Johns2-360x270.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s something inherently compelling about &#8220;no one will believe me!&#8221; tales, and this one is no exception; it&#8217;s well worth a watch. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Notable Performances, Qualities, and Moments:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jimmy Stewart as Theodore Honey<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/No-Highway-in-the-Sky-Stewart.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/No-Highway-in-the-Sky-Stewart.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/No-Highway-in-the-Sky-Stewart.png 640w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/No-Highway-in-the-Sky-Stewart-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/No-Highway-in-the-Sky-Stewart-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/No-Highway-in-the-Sky-Stewart-360x270.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Glynis Johns as Marjorie Corder<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/No-Highway-in-the-Sky-Johns.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/No-Highway-in-the-Sky-Johns.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/No-Highway-in-the-Sky-Johns.png 640w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/No-Highway-in-the-Sky-Johns-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/No-Highway-in-the-Sky-Johns-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/No-Highway-in-the-Sky-Johns-360x270.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Marlene Dietrich as Monica Teasdale<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/No-Highway-in-the-Sky-Dietrich.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/No-Highway-in-the-Sky-Dietrich.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/No-Highway-in-the-Sky-Dietrich.png 640w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/No-Highway-in-the-Sky-Dietrich-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/No-Highway-in-the-Sky-Dietrich-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/No-Highway-in-the-Sky-Dietrich-360x270.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Niall MacGinnis as Captain Samuelson<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/No-Highway-in-the-Sky-McGinnis.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/No-Highway-in-the-Sky-McGinnis.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/No-Highway-in-the-Sky-McGinnis.png 640w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/No-Highway-in-the-Sky-McGinnis-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/No-Highway-in-the-Sky-McGinnis-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/No-Highway-in-the-Sky-McGinnis-360x270.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Georges Perinal&#8217;s cinematography<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/No-Highway-in-the-Sky-Cinematography.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/No-Highway-in-the-Sky-Cinematography.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/No-Highway-in-the-Sky-Cinematography.png 640w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/No-Highway-in-the-Sky-Cinematography-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/No-Highway-in-the-Sky-Cinematography-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/No-Highway-in-the-Sky-Cinematography-360x270.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/No-Highway-in-the-Sky-Scott.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/No-Highway-in-the-Sky-Scott.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/No-Highway-in-the-Sky-Scott.png 640w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/No-Highway-in-the-Sky-Scott-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/No-Highway-in-the-Sky-Scott-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/No-Highway-in-the-Sky-Scott-360x270.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nYes, as a fine show. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Categories<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Good Show<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0043859\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1951\/09\/22\/archives\/the-screen-in-review-no-highway-in-the-sky-wit-james-stewart-and.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcm.com\/tcmdb\/title\/85095\/no-highway-in-the-sky#articles-reviews?articleId=409498\">TCM Article<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvguide.com\/movies\/no-highway-in-the-sky\/review\/2000344984\/\">TV Guide Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvdtalk.com\/dvdsavant\/s4705sky.html\">DVD Savant Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/andyoucallyourselfascientist.com\/2016\/06\/07\/no-highway-in-the-sky-1951\/\">And You Call Yourself a Scientist Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/-ckZk5BGcAo\">Reel Engineering Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;People must be someone else&#8217;s concern; I can&#8217;t let it be mine, Mr. Scott!&#8221; Synopsis: After explaining to his new boss (Jack Hawkins) that a type of airplane known as the &#8220;Reindeer&#8221; will fail after a certain number of flight hours (due to metal fatigue), a widowed aeronautical engineer (Jimmy Stewart) leaves his self-sufficient daughter (Janette Scott) at home while traveling to investigate a crash. When onboard his flight, he discovers he&#8217;s on a Reindeer that is near its presumably&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=75322\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75322"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86262,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75322\/revisions\/86262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}