The Man in the Sky – Jack Hawkins DVD

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The Man in the Sky (released in the U.S. as Decision Against Time) is a 1957 thriller drama film starring Jack Hawkins and produced by Ealing Films, Michael Balcon’s new company, set up after Rank had sold Ealing Studios in Ealing Green, West London, to the BBC in 1955. Balcon, who had run the company on behalf of Rank since 1944, left Rank in 1956 and set up the new company, striking a distribution and production deal with MGM.

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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.

 

REGION ALL PAL DVD NOT FOR U.S / CANADA

 

This item is a manufactured-on-demand release. Using recordable CDs & DVDs, the label who owns the rights to these MOD releases, custom burns discs for each order sold. Most titles previously had a pressed release but have lapsed out of print and are now only available on these  MOD discs.

Additional information

Format

MOD DVD

Release Year

1957

Region Code

DVD: 0/All (Region Free/Worldwide)

Genre

Drama, Thriller

Actor

Elizabeth Sellars, Jack Hawkins, Jeremy Bodkin

Movie/TV Title

The Man in the Sky

Brand

Special Features

Manufactured on Demand, PAL