Trouble in the Sky
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Charles Frend
Michael Craig
Peter Cushing
Bernard Lee
Elizabeth Seal
George Sanders
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Synopsis
Following the takeoff crash of a jet plane in India, veteran British pilot Capt. George Gort is called before a court of inquiry. Though he is found guilty of "pilot error," in recognition of his long safety record, he is not grounded. His daughter, Charlotte, refuses to believe her father was at fault and persuades an expert flying examiner, Captain Dallas, to help her prove her father's innocence. A short time later Gort fatally crashes in a takeoff from Ranjibad in conditions identical to those of the previous crash. As a second inquiry is held, Dallas proves that the jet's designer, Nigel Pickering, had withheld data concerning a defect in the plane's takeoff equipment, which he had been secretly trying to perfect. With this new information Charlotte is able to preserve her late father's good name.
Director
Charles Frend
Cast
Michael Craig
Peter Cushing
Bernard Lee
Elizabeth Seal
George Sanders
Andre Morell
Gordon Jackson
Charles Tingwell
Noel Willman
Delphi Lawrence
Marne Maitland
William Abney
Jack Hedley
Simon Lack
Hedger Wallace
Charles Mylne
Howard Pays
Ballard Berkeley
Charles Lloyd Pack
Homi Bode
Anthony Newlands
Crew
Buster Ambler
Aubrey Baring
Max Benedict
Ann Box
John Cox
Jeffrey Dell
Peter Dukelow
Arthur Grant
Basil Rabin
Jack Rix
Gerard Schürmann
Wilfred Shingleton
William Walsh
Robert Westerby
Freddie Williamson
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Opened in London in April 1960 as Cone of Silence; running time: 92 min.
