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.

• DirectorHenry Koster
• Release28 June 1951
• Genre
  Drama / Thriller
• Duration1h 38m
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  6.9
  58 reviews
• Productions

  20th Century Fox