Q Planes

Q Planes aka in U.S. as Clouds Over Europe is a 1939 British comedy spy film starring Ralph Richardson, Laurence Olivier and Valerie Hobson. Olivier and Richardson were a decade into their 50year friendship and theatrical collaboration and had just completed Othello with Richardson in the title role and Olivier as Iago, when this film was made. The film was produced by Irving Asher, an American, with British film impresario Alexander Korda as executive producer.

McVane returns to the aircraft factory, determined to make the next test flight. His aircraft, like the others, is brought down by a powerful ray beamed from the S.S. Viking, a mysterious salvage ship manned by a foreign crew. Although the nationality of the crew and agents aboard the Viking is only implied, it was understood by audiences All of the crew speak with German accents and little doubt is left who the villains are, wrote Variety.Along with his aircraft, McVane and his flight crew are taken hostage on the ship, where he discovers many other missing airmen have suffered the same fate. Gathering up weapons, McVane leads the British survivors in an attempt to take control of the ship. Major Hammond learns the truth and directs a Royal Navy ship HMSEcho to come to their rescue. Kay and McVane form a relationship and Hammond learns, to his chagrin, that his longtime lady friend, whose plans with him are repeatedly being cancelled as the action escalates, has married someone else. ........

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