Q Planes( 1939)

TV-MAComedyMysteryThrillerScience Fiction

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DRAMA OF THE WAR ON SPIES!

Overview

In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team up to solve the mystery of a series of test aircraft which have disappeared without a trace while over the ocean on their maiden flights; unaware, as they are, that a spy ring has been shooting the planes down with a ray machine hidden aboard a salvage vessel which is on hand to haul the downed aircraft aboard, crews and all.

Top Billed Cast

Ralph Richardson
Maj. Charles Hammond
Laurence Olivier
Tony McVane
Valerie Hobson
Kay Lawrence
George Merritt
Mr. Barrett
George Curzon
Jenkins
Roy Emerton
Viking First Mate
Frank Fox
Karl
Gus McNaughton
Blenkinsop, Hammond's Butler
George Butler
Air Marshal Gosport
Gordon McLeod
The Baron
Hay Petrie
Stage Door Keeper
Sandra Storme
Daphne
David Tree
R. Mackenzie
John Longden
John Peters, a Pilot
Ronald Adam
Pollack - Aviation Engineer
Patrick Aherne
Officer
Mark Daly
John - Factory Watchman
David Farrar
Viking Bo'sun
Ian Fleming
Air Ministry Officer
Franklin Kelsey
Inspector
John Laurie
Newspaper Editor
Herbert Lomas
Mattie - Fisherman
Raymond Lovell
Northern Salvage Company Manager
Gertrude Musgrove
Barmaid
Reginald Purdell
Pilot
John Robinson
Pilot
John Singer
Newspaper Boy
Lewis Stringer
Foreign Agent
Jack Vyvyan
Police Sgt
Hal Walters
Cornish Car Driver
Eileen Bennett
Minor Role
Leslie Bradley
Minor Role
Henry Caine
Minor Role
Derek Farr
Minor Role
Morland Graham
Minor Role
Sally Gray
Minor Role
Allan Jeayes
Minor Role
Colin Keith-Johnston
Minor Role
Gregory Stroud
Minor Role
Miles Malleson
Minor Role

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A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on Wed Jun 22 2022

When aircraft with secret gadgets aboard start disappearing all around the globe, "Maj. Hammond" (Ralph Richardson) reckons that there is something suspicious going on. His investigations - frequently interfered with by his aspiring journalist sister "Kay" (Valerie Hobson) - eventually, despite scepticism from the latest aircraft's manufacturers, manage to enrol budding pilot "McVane" (Laurence Olivier) into his cunning plan to identify and bring the perpetrators to book... As a story, it's all a bit far-fetched, but what gives it quite an edge is the really quirky - almost improv. style of del...