“It would have collapsed on schedule if I’d lowered the temperature by forty degrees.”

English Drama Thriller 1951 – James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Glynis Johns

If Mr. Smith was a boffin scientist working in aeronautical safety 70 years ago, long before Boeing broke bad.

The book on which this was based was written by an interesting man named Nevil Shute, who also wrote the true classic On The Beach, which was made into a film at the end of the same decade just before Shute’s death, and just before I incarnated into this vale.