Overview
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.
Production
Ealing Studios
Cast & Characters
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
Jeremy Bodkin
Nicholas Mitchell
Directors & Crew
Charles Crichton
Director
John Eldridge
Screenplay
William Rose
Screenplay
Michael Balcon
Producer
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