No Highway In The Sky (1951) James Stewart

"No Highway in the Sky" is a 1951 aviation drama directed by Henry Koster, starring James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich. Based on Nevil Shute's novel "No Highway," the film follows Theodore Honey (Stewart), an eccentric aeronautical engineer who predicts that a new aircraft model, the Reindeer, will suffer catastrophic failure due to metal fatigue. When he finds himself on one of these planes that he believes is about to fail, he must convince the crew and passengers of the imminent danger.