Ealing Studios
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The Man in the Sky
Dare-devil test pilot takes you on a nerve-tingling adventure!
The efforts of test pilot John Mitchell to make a better life for his wife Mary and their two children seem doomed to failure and he blames himself. At the Conway Aero-Manufacturing Company of Wolverhampton, Mitchell is to take the company's new rocket-propulsion transport plane up for tests, fully loaded and carrying two important passengers - Ministry official Crabtree and buyer's representative Ashmore. Mitchell learns from his boss, Reg Conway, that if Ashmore does not recommend the plane, the company will be out of business and Mitchell out of a job, since the plane is not even insured as the firm's entire capital is tied up in the plane. Aloft, an engine catches fire and the passengers and other crew bail out, but Mitchell refuses to obey orders to jettison the plane in the Irish Sea.
- Original title
- The Man in the Sky
- Language
- EN
- Country
- GB
- Budget
- —
- Revenue
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Jack Hawkins
John Mitchell
Elizabeth Sellars
Mary Mitchell
Walter Fitzgerald
Reginald Conway
Eddie Byrne
Ashmore
John Stratton
Peter Hook
Victor Maddern
Joe Biggs
Lionel Jeffries
Keith
Donald Pleasence
Crabtree
Catherine Lacey
Mary's mother
Megs Jenkins
Mrs. Snowden
Ernest Clark
Maine
Howard Marion-Crawford
Ingrams
Russell Waters
Sim
Raymond Francis
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Mary Mackenzie
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Douglas Slocombe
Director of Photography
Charles Crichton
Director
Seth Holt
Associate Producer
Michael Balcon
Producer
John Eldridge
Screenplay
Paths of Glory
The World of Apu
All About Eve
M
La Jetée
Umberto D.
Rififi
The Hustler
Sweet Smell of Success
The Manchurian Candidate
Miramar
Scarface
Murder She Said
Dead Man
Pickpocket
Chimes at Midnight
Sunset and Sunrise
Shanghai Express
The Postman
The Jazz Singer
Citizen Kane
The Right Stuff
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Detour
American Underdog
The Keys of the Kingdom
No Highway in the Sky
The Shepherd
While the City Sleeps
We Are Marshall
The Tarnished Angels
The First of the Few
The Spirit of St. Louis
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
The Great Waldo Pepper
Fate Is the Hunter
Airport
The Program
Fast Girls
Jonathan
