
Betrayal and espionage abound as an experimental aircraft is readied for its maiden voyage.
Directed by Malcolm St. Clair, Crack-Up leans on a strong ensemble — Peter Lorre, Brian Donlevy, Helen Wood — to carry a story that balances spectacle with character.
The film landed with audiences for its craft and performances, and remains one of the most talked-about thriller titles of 1936.
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James Stewart plays aeronautical engineer Theodore Honey, the quintessential absent-minded professor: eccentric, forgetful, but brilliant. His studies show that the aircraft being manufactured by his employer has a subtle but deadly design flaw that manifests itself only after the aircraft has flown a certain number of hours. En route to a crash site to prove his theory, Honey discovers that he is aboard a plane rapidly approaching his predicted deadline.
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