Spies of the Air
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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."[3][Note 2]
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Directed by | David MacDonald |
Written by | Bridget Boland A.R. Rawlinson |
Based on | Official Secret by Jeffrey Dell |
Produced by | John Corfield |
Starring | Barry K. Barnes Roger Livesey Felix Aylmer |
Cinematography | Bryan Langley |
Edited by | David Lean |
Music by | Ronnie Munro |
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Distributed by | Associated British Film Distributors (UK) Film Alliance of the United States Inc. (US) |
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Running time | 62 minutes 78 minutes (original UK release runtime) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
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