Information
- BFI identifier36989
- Date1956 (Copyright)
1957-02-18 (Release) - Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisAir drama about a test pilot who battles against his own failing nerve and his control tower's advice in an effort to land the plane in one piece and save his company from liquidation. (Synopsis)
- Genre
- Credits
- CastJack Hawkins (John Mitchell)
Elizabeth Sellars (Mary Mitchell)
Walter Fitzgerald (Conway)
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Title
The Man in the Sky (Original)
Decision Against Time (Alternative)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/4508-F5C5-6CB4-25A4-2CC2-4Category
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
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- Film / Video
35mm BW Positive - CTA - Combined - Viewing
view all - Scripts / DocumentsMAN IN THE SKY - Correspondence with John Davis - MEB-1555
MAN IN THE SKY - Literary contract file regarding technical adviser on the film - MEB-1761
MAN IN THE SKY - I/304 Sheet music and cross-plot I/304a General production file, 1956-1957 I/304b Legal and censorship file, 1956 I/304c Artistes' contracts - MEB-1911
Script - Script type: Shooting script - SCR-11927
Ephemera: publicity - PBS-36989
Medium and small pressbooks held. Information folder held.
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Work - 36989 - 1956 (Copyright)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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