Metal fatigue on planes is the subject, but never mind that, feel the un-Hollywood quality of the characters’ names in this Nevil Shute potboiler. James Stewart plays Theodore Honey, Glynis Johns is Marjorie Corder, and best of all, Marlene Dietrich takes to the screen as Monica Teasdale. Keeping the British end up are Felix Aylmer, Kenneth More, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Dora Bryan and Pete Murray, operating a radio, appropriately enough.
