| Q Planes | |
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| Directed by | Tim Whelan Arthur B. Woods |
| Written by | Brock Williams Jack Whittingham Ian Dalrymple |
| Produced by | Irving Asher Executive producer: Alexander Korda |
| Starring | Ralph Richardson Laurence Olivier Valerie Hobson |
| Cinematography | Harry Stradling Sr. |
| Edited by | Hugh Stewart |
| Music by | Muir Mathieson |
| Color process | Black and white |
Production company | Irving Asher Productions[1] |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures (UK, US) |
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Running time | 82 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
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.[2]
Q Planes was produced by Irving Asher, an American, with British film impresario Alexander Korda as executive producer.[3] 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.
- ^ Morley 1977, p. 76.
- ^ Olivier 1982, p. 68.
- ^ Aldgate & Richards 1994, p. 79.