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Spies of the Air

Set just before the outbreak of WWII, this is the story of a test pilot who works for the (unnamed) enemy. Made in 1939, by the time it was released in 1940, war had been declared.

Top Cast

  • Barry K. Barnes

    Barry K. Barnes

    Peter Thurloe

  • Joan Marion

    Joan Marion

    Dorothy Houghton

  • Roger Livesey

    Roger Livesey

    Charles Houghton

  • Basil Radford

    Basil Radford

    Bill Madison

  • Everley Gregg

    Everley Gregg

    Emily Madison

  • Felix Aylmer

    Felix Aylmer

    Col. Cairns

  • Wallace Douglas

    Wallace Douglas

    Agent Hooper

  • Henry Oscar

    Henry Oscar

    Porter

  • John Turnbull

    John Turnbull

    Sir Andrew Hamilton

Overview

Set just before the outbreak of WWII, this is the story of a test pilot who works for the (unnamed) enemy. Made in 1939, by the time it was released in 1940, war had been declared.

Rating

6.7 / 10
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  • CinemaSerf
    CinemaSerf
    6 Jun 22, 2022

    Not much to say about tis rather routine, short, pre-war espionage drama. Roger Livesey is an aeronautical engineer working with his team (Basil Bradford and Barry Barnes) on a top secret design for a test aircraft. Meantime Felix Aylmer ("Col. Cairns") is in charge of security and when he suspects the plans are being copied we have to try and suss out who the traitor is - and discover it's not just the nation that might be being betrayed. It's got an efficient script, the story doesn't hang about and there is some enjoyable aerial photography (interspersed with some rather fun toy aircraft-on-a-wire type shots too) with quite a good ending. David MacDonald does fine with what must have been a tiny budget, and it has a certain, enjoyable, generosity of spirit about it.

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