Movie

The W Plan
1930 · 95 min
A stiff-upper-lip wartime espionage yarn that keeps you leaning forward, more talk and nerve than spectacle.
- Directed by
- Victor Saville
- Genres
- War, Action, Adventure
- Starring
- Brian Aherne, George Merritt, C.M. Hallard
- Overview
- A tense WWI spy thriller in which Colonel Duncan Grant (British star Brian Aherne, in his first talking role), parachutes into Germany to gather intelligence on the enemy’s secret ‘W Plan’ and to assist Allied POWs in digging escape tunnels.
- How it feels
- Tense, earnest and dark. Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- War, deception, survival, loyalty
- Content
- Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Victor Saville
- Genres
- War, Action, Adventure
- Starring
- Brian Aherne, George Merritt, C.M. Hallard












