For a moral dilemma, the picture would ordinarily rate much higher, but the way it plods along was overbearing and very boring. Jack Hawkins is always going to come down and then he doesn't.
His company is about to hit the skids if they don't sell this airplane. He goes up with others only for one of the engines to catch fire and the others parachute out to safety.
It is only that when he successfully lands the plane without incident or tragedy occurring, in returning to his wife and children, he finds his wife outraged that he would sacrifice himself to his two young sons and her to prove a point-the airplane was valuable. He speaks of the morality issue and what is right in defending his decision. It is at this point that Hawkins and movie wife Elizabeth Sellars show some real depth in acting. The problem was the getting to this point in this rather otherwise dull film.
His company is about to hit the skids if they don't sell this airplane. He goes up with others only for one of the engines to catch fire and the others parachute out to safety.
It is only that when he successfully lands the plane without incident or tragedy occurring, in returning to his wife and children, he finds his wife outraged that he would sacrifice himself to his two young sons and her to prove a point-the airplane was valuable. He speaks of the morality issue and what is right in defending his decision. It is at this point that Hawkins and movie wife Elizabeth Sellars show some real depth in acting. The problem was the getting to this point in this rather otherwise dull film.