6.3
Spies of the Air (1939)
March 30, 19391h 18mEN
6.7
3 votes
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.
Director
David MacDonaldWriters
Top Billed Cast
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
N/A
Revenue
N/A
Production Companies
British National Films
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CinemaSerf
6.0Not 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…
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