Spies of the Air (1940)

Directed by

David MacDonald

Genre

spy film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 18m

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

At the start of World War II, a British secret agent works to uncover a network of enemy spies operating around an aircraft factory. The film follows his efforts to stop the spies from stealing military secrets.

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What happens

Spies of the Air (also known as Spies in the Air and The Fifth Column) is a 1939 British adventure film directed by David MacDonald and based on the play Official Secret by Jeffrey Dell. The film stars Barry K. Barnes, Roger Livesey, Basil Radford, Edward Ashley and Felix Aylmer. Spies of the Air involves espionage in the period just before the outbreak of war in Europe that spawned a number of similar propaganda films linking aeronautics and spies. Films in both Great Britain and the United States centred on "... spies and fifth columnists (as) the staple diet of films made during the first year of the war." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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