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You can stream Q Planes (1939) on Criterion Channel with a subscription.

In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team up to solve the mystery of a series of test aircraft which have disappeared without a trace while over the ocean on their maiden flights; unaware, as they are, that a spy ring has been shooting the planes down with a ray machine hidden aboard a salvage vessel which is on hand to haul the downed aircraft aboard, crews and all.

Q Planes is a film that explores themes of bureaucracy, spy, murder. It also touches on aviation and woman reporter and sabotage.

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