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Plot

This British spy thriller concerns the theft of valuable aircraft secrets by enemy agents. Laurence Olivier plays a firebrand test pilot who falls under suspicion when several planes disappear. Costar Ralph Richardson steals the film as a seemingly befuddled secret service operative assigned to the case. Despite its topicality (the film was made in 1939, when Europe was bracing itself against the possibility of war), Q Planes is played with the tongue-in-cheek bravado of a "Boy's Own Paper" tale. Q Planes was released in the US as Clouds over Europe.
MPAA Rating:
Genre(s):
Drama,Thriller
Run Time:
82min.
Distributor(s):
Columbia Pictures
Director(s):
Tim Whelan, Sr.
Starring:
Laurence Olivier , Ralph Richardson , Valerie Hobson , George Curzon , George Merritt
Themes:
Miscarriage of Justice
Tone:
Paranoid,Tense,Witty
Keywords:
Britain,Scotland-Yard,aerial,barnstorming,bomb,coast,espionage,handsome,inspection,investigation,investigator,mastermind,missing,plans,radio,romance,secret-plan,secrets,sister,test-pilot,theory