Spies of the Air (1939)
1h 18m
Running Time
March 30, 1939Release Date
Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.
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
David MacDonald
Director
Wallace Douglas
Agent Hooper
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Wiki.
Spies of the Air (also known as Spies in the Air and The Fifth Column) is a 1939 British adventure film directed by David MacDonald and based on the play Official Secret by Jeffrey Dell. The film stars Barry K. Barnes, Roger Livesey, Basil Radford, Edward Ashley and Felix Aylmer. Spies of the Air involves espionage in the period just before the outbreak of war in Europe that spawned a number of similar propaganda films linking aeronautics and spies. Films in both Great Britain and the United States centred on "... spies and fifth columnists (as) the staple diet of films made during the first year of the war."