The Man in the Sky
The Man in the Sky
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.
Cast
Jack Hawkins
Elizabeth Sellars
Walter Fitzgerald
Eddie Byrne
John Stratton
Victor Maddern
Lionel Jeffries
Donald Pleasence
Catherine Lacey
Megs Jenkins
Ernest Clark
Jeremy Bodkin
Gerard Lohan
Howard Marion-Crawford
Russell Waters
Raymond Francis
John Baddeley
Mary Mackenzie
Crew
William Rose
Charles Crichton
John Eldridge
William Rose
Roy Gough
Seth Holt
Michael Balcon
Peter Tanner
Gerard Schurmann
