Q Planes

Q Planes (known as Clouds Over Europe in the United States) is a 1939 British comedy spy film starring Ralph Richardson, Laurence Olivier and Valerie Hobson. Olivier and Richardson were a decade into their fifty-year friendship and were in the process of staging a theatrical version of Othello, with Richardson in the title role and Olivier as Iago, when this film was made.

Q Planes
Directed byTim Whelan
Arthur B. Woods
Written byBrock Williams
Jack Whittingham
Ian Dalrymple
Produced byIrving Asher
Executive producer:
Alexander Korda
StarringRalph Richardson
Laurence Olivier
Valerie Hobson
CinematographyHarry Stradling Sr.
Edited byHugh Stewart
Music byMuir Mathieson
Color processBlack and white
Production
company
Irving Asher Productions
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
(UK, US)
Release date
  • 2 March 1939 (1939-03-02)
Running time
82 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Q Planes was produced by Irving Asher, an American, with British film impresario Alexander Korda as executive producer. The film was directed by an American, Tim Whelan (Sidewalks of London, and later in 1940, co-director of The Thief of Bagdad), who had lived in Britain since 1932, working for Korda at Denham Studios.

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