Q Planes (1939)

Directed by

Arthur B. Woods, Tim Whelan

Genre

comedy film, science fiction film, spy film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 22m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 40 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

British intelligence agents investigate a series of mysterious disappearances of new aircraft. A test pilot and a spy get tangled up in the case.

lightheartedcomedicplayfulbreezywhimsicalspiritedtongue-in-cheek

What happens

Q Planes (known as Clouds Over Europe in the United States) is a 1939 British comedy spy film starring Ralph Richardson, Laurence Olivier and Valerie Hobson. Olivier and Richardson were a decade into their fifty-year friendship and were in the process of staging a theatrical version of Othello, with Richardson in the title role and Olivier as Iago, when this film was made. Q Planes was produced by Irving Asher, an American, with British film impresario Alexander Korda as executive producer. The film was directed by an American, Tim Whelan (Sidewalks of London, and later in 1940, co-director of The Thief of Bagdad), who had lived in Britain since 1932, working for Korda at Denham Studios. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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