Q Planes - Wikipedia. Q Planes (known as Clouds Over Europe in the United States) is a 1. British comedy spy film starring Ralph Richardson, Laurence Olivier and Valerie Hobson. Olivier and Richardson were a decade into their 5.

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Othello, with Richardson in the title role and Olivier as Iago, when this film was made.[2] The film was produced by Irving Asher, an American, with British film impresario Alexander Korda as executive producer.[3]The name Q Planes may have been derived from the British "Q- ships", armed ships disguised as merchantmen, used in the First World War as decoys to lure German U- boats. The film was directed by American director Tim Whelan (Sidewalks of London and later in 1.

The Thief of Bagdad), who had been in Britain since 1. Korda at Denham Studios. In September 1. 93.

British aircraft prototypes carrying experimental and secret equipment are vanishing with their crews on test flights. No one can fathom why, not even spymaster Major Hammond (Ralph Richardson) or his sister Kay (Valerie Hobson), a newspaper reporter, who is working undercover in the works canteen used by the crews at the Barrett & Ward Aircraft Company.

At first Major Hammond is seen as an outsider at the aircraft factory, especially by Mr. Barrett, the owner (George Merritt), who is working under a government contract but he soon finds a friend in a star pilot, Tony Mc. Vane (Laurence Olivier) who helps him try to solve the case. Hammond becomes convinced that Jenkins (George Curzon), the company secretary at the factory, is a foreign agent and mole but Jenkins is killed by unseen gunmen before he can give up the names of his contacts. Mc. Vane returns to the aircraft factory, determined to make the next test flight. His aircraft, like the others, is brought down by a powerful ray beamed from the S.

S. Viking, a mysterious salvage ship manned by a foreign crew. Although the nationality of the crew and agents aboard the Viking is only implied, it was understood by audiences: "All of the crew speak with German accents and little doubt is left who the villains are," wrote Variety.[4]Along with his aircraft, Mc. Vane and his flight crew are taken hostage on the ship, where he discovers many other missing airmen have suffered the same fate. Gathering up weapons, Mc. Vane leads the British survivors in an attempt to take control of the ship. Major Hammond learns the truth and directs a Royal Navy ship (HMS Echo) to come to their rescue.

Kay and Mc. Vane form a relationship and Hammond learns, to his chagrin, that his long- time lady friend, whose plans with him are repeatedly being cancelled as the action escalates, has married someone else. Film roles identified by order in the credits: [5][6]Production[edit]The film's working title was Foreign Sabotage.[5] Period airports and aircraft including the Airspeed Envoy, de Havilland Dragon Rapide and de Havilland Tiger Moth are featured in the aerial scenes. The Brooklands racetrack, which also was an important aeronautical centre, was used as a backdrop for the aerial sequences on the ground.[7]According to one film historian, the film's plot—and budget—were inspired by true events. In 1. 93. 8, a revolutionary bomber, the Vickers Wellesley bomber prototype, which used geodesic construction created by Barnes Wallis, disappeared over the English Channel during a test flight.[8] "The Air Ministry asked Lord Vansittart of Denham, chief of the British secret service, to initiate a search for the lost aircraft," wrote Richard Edwards on his film blog. Part of the Wellesley's wreckage was supposedly found in a garage in Kiel and it was suggested that the ill- fated plane had been shot down by a German U- boat."[9]The British secret service were so sure of this that they partially funded this film to let the Luftwaffe know they had figured it out.

Lord Vansittart was, after all, a good friend of executive producer Alexander Korda. After searching and finding pieces of the missing prototype, Vansittart asked Korda to make this film and made Secret Service funds available to help him do so.[9]Written and produced in September 1. Olivier sailed for America to star as Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights (1. Q Planes is historically interesting for its contrast to later British war films and to Olivier's later film career. The film might be called the last of the "neutral Britain" spy comedies, which Hitchcock had pioneered in The 3.

Steps (1. 93. 5) and The Lady Vanishes (1. Watch Magic Hour Online Metacritic there. The British later excelled at this genre in the James Bond films from the 1.

Jack Whittington co- wrote Thunderball [1. British made once war was declared and Hitler began to conquer all of Europe while Britain stood by, seemingly helpless.[1. Q Planes was a knock- off for Olivier, already bound for America and the prestigious filming of Wuthering Heights but Richardson, who had encouraged Olivier to take the role of Heathcliff with his famous advice, "Bit of fame. Good." was always better at comedy and dominates much of the screen, with a sardonic performance as a spy, either working for Scotland Yard or British Military Intelligence.[1. Reception[edit]Q Planes was released in the U. S. as Clouds Over Europe, on 3. June 1. 93. 9.[5] Despite its subject, Q Planes is mainly a comedy — "a sort of Thin Man in an espionage setting," wrote Picturegoer.

The film received positive reviews, with much of its success due to Ralph Richardson, who cleverly held together the comedy and dramatic ingredients as Major Hammond. Kinematograph Weekly described Q Planes as "rousing espionage, romantic melodrama, staged in the best happy- go- lucky but pukka British tradition."[1]C. A. Lejeune called the film "a bright, vigorous little picture, and Mr.

Richardson's Major is the brightest thing in it. You should see it. You'll like it. It has savour."[1. Leslie Halliwell called it a "lively, lovely thriller distinguished by a droll leading performance.[1. Regarding Olivier's performance in the film, critic Dilys Powell recalled "being surprised that the actor made so slight an impression", and described him as "dashing but undistinguished."[1. For Olivier scholars and fans, Q Planes shows the dramatic difference his subsequent American work with Wyler and Hitchcock made on his film acting.

Here, Olivier is at the height of the glib, self- conscious acting style of the 1. Wyler.[1. 6] Olivier writes that it was only then he learned to stop condescending to pictures as a mere paycheck between Shakespeare productions and instead master acting for the camera as its own form.[1. The New York Times film critic Frank S. Nugent was initially put off by the film's new opening which, unlike the British release, now reflected an ever- darkening scenario of outright war with Nazi Germany. Hoping to impress this on their then- reluctant American cousins — executive producer Korda was Churchill's designated agent in the filmic aspect of de- neutralizing America[1. Commons, Parliament, the War Office, the India Office, No.

Downing Street and other imposing edifices," as described by Nugent. As an added touch of dignity and authority, a commentator's voice noted each building as it passed, spoke gravely of the burden of empire, of trade and population statistics, and of the might and wisdom of Britain's leaders …" Nugent expressed relief when this made- for- America preamble turns into the British comedy it originally was, and praised it as "one of the wittiest and pleasantest comedies that have come a capering to the American screen this season".[1. Variety regarded the newsreel- style introduction as one of the film's "unusual, deft slants" and praised the film as an "excellent summer diversion.