Jack Hawkins mentions this movie in his autobiography ("Anything for a Quiet Life"). He refers to it by it's UK release title, "Man in the Sky".After his character lands and returns home to his wife... "I then had a six-minute speech, which was really the justification why a man does a job - any job - which was brilliantly written by Bill Rose, one of the finest screen-writers, and a man who wrote perfectly for me. This speech attracted a lot of attention..."