Q Planes

Q Planes

5.9IMDb Score
Released:1939-02-21
Duration:82 min
Director:Tim Whelan, Arthur B. Woods
Actors:Ralph Richardson, Laurence Olivier, Valerie Hobson, George Merritt, George Curzon
Production:Irving Asher Productions

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.

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