Spies of the Air
1939 | 78m | English
Popularity: 0.5 (history)
| Director: | David MacDonald |
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| Writer: | A.R. Rawlinson, Bridget Boland |
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| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Mar 30, 1939 |
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| Director: | David MacDonald |
| Writer: | A.R. Rawlinson, Bridget Boland |
| Genres: | Adventure |
| Keywords | test pilot |
| Production Companies | British National Films |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 (Update) Entered: May 01, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
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| Barry K. Barnes | Peter Thurloe |
| Joan Marion | Dorothy Houghton |
| Roger Livesey | Charles Houghton |
| Basil Radford | Bill Madison |
| Everley Gregg | Emily Madison |
| Felix Aylmer | Col. Cairns |
| Wallace Douglas | Agent Hooper |
| Henry Oscar | Porter |
| John Turnbull | Sir Andrew Hamilton |
| Edward Ashley | Stuart |
| Santos Casani | Foreigner |
| Hal Walters | Kingswell |
| David Davies | Detective (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| David Lean | Editor |
| David MacDonald | Director |
| A.R. Rawlinson | Screenplay |
| Bridget Boland | Screenplay |
| Jeffrey Dell | Theatre Play |
| Ronnie Munro | Original Music Composer |
| Bryan Langley | Director of Photography |
| Bernard Willis | Production Manager |
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| 2024 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
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| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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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.