What an absolute ripper of a film! I wasn't expecting it to be so very tense; the title character, the Man in the Sky, played wonderfully well by Jack Hawkins, is a test pilot with much on his mind. He seems to feel that he's reached the end of the line, that he has nowhere to go, because the company he works for is one month away from bankruptcy and soon he'll be out of a job with nothing to fall back on. His wife is disappointed, she wants a home of her own badly to bring up their two sons, but it looks like that too won't happen because her test pilot husband can't bring himself to finan…
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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.
Release date
24/01/1957
Votes
12
Popularity
3.5
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
Gerard Lohan
Philip Mitchell
Howard Marion-Crawford
Ingrams
Russell Waters
Sim
Raymond Francis
John Baddeley
Mary Mackenzie
Original Soundtrack
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