

Q Planes
DRAMA OF THE WAR ON SPIES!
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.
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- Language
- English
- bureaucracy
- spy
- murder
- aviation
- woman reporter
- sabotage
- umbrella
- denial
- screwball comedy
- aircraft factory
- test pilot
- ray gun
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United StatesUS
- TheatricalNRDistributed by Columbia Pictures Corp.20 Jun 1939
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical21 Feb 1939
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Q Planes was released on 21 February 1939.
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CinemaSerf
6/22/2022
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 cunn…
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