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''Q Planes'' (also ''Foreign Sabotage'' and Clouds Over Europe") is a 1939 British comedy spy film starring Ralph Richardson, Laurence Olivier and Valerie Hobson. Olivier and Richardson were a decade into their 50-year friendship and theatrical collaboration and had just completed Othello with Richardson in the title role and Olivier as Iago, when this film was made.〔"An Autobiography (1982) by Laurence Olivier, p. 68〕 The film was produced by Irving Asher an American, with British film impresario Alexander Korda as executive producer.〔Aldgate and Richards 1994, p. 79.〕 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 1940, co-director of ''The Thief of Bagdad''), who had been in Britain since 1932, working for Korda at Denham Studios. The film was also released in the US in 1939 by Columbia Pictures as ''Clouds Over Europe''. ==Plot== Advanced 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 McVane (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. McVane 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 (the German identity of the crew and agents aboard the ''S.S. Viking'' is only implied, as it was in all British films until the outbreak of war; in Britain, as in America, national censors refused to let Nazi Germany or Hitler be named in any studio film as a violation of their neutrality laws.) Along with his aircraft, McVane 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, McVane leads the British survivors in an attempt to take control of the ship. Major Hammond learns the truth and directs a Royal Navy ship () to come to their rescue. Kay and McVane 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Q Planes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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