The W Plan

The W Plan

1930 · 95 min · ★ 8.0 · War, Action, Adventure

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.

Directed by Victor Saville · Written by Frank Launder

Your Rating

Cast

More from Victor SavilleSee all →

Hindle WakesHindle Wakes · 1931
Hindle Wakes
10.01931
MovieDrama
A Lancashire mill girl has an illicit adventure with the owner's son while on holiday. Based on the once notorious Houghton play.
Forever and a DayForever and a Day · 1943
Forever and a Day
7.51943
MovieDramaHistory
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.
Storm in a TeacupStorm in a Teacup · 1937
Storm in a Teacup
7.41937
MovieComedyRomance
A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.
Goodbye, Mr. ChipsGoodbye, Mr. Chips · 1939
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
7.41939
MovieDramaRomance
Throughout the late 19th-century and early 20th-century, Mr Arthur Chipping rises from a shy, nervous teacher to the beloved, revered headmaster of Brookfield School, with his life and career shaped by his love for his wife and his unwavering dedication to his students.
The Mortal StormThe Mortal Storm · 1940
The Mortal Storm
7.31940
MovieDrama
The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. After the Nazis come to power, the family is divided and Martin Breitner, a family friend, is caught up in the turmoil.
Kiss Me DeadlyKiss Me Deadly · 1955
Kiss Me Deadly
7.21955
MovieMysteryThriller
One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thugs waylay them and force his car to crash. When Hammer returns to semi-consciousness, he hears Christina being tortured until she dies. Hammer, both for vengeance and in hopes that "something big" is behind it all, decides to pursue the case.
A Woman's FaceA Woman's Face · 1941
A Woman's Face
6.81941
MovieDramaThriller
A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.
Keeper of the FlameKeeper of the Flame · 1943
Keeper of the Flame
6.61943
MovieDramaMystery
Famed reporter Stephen O'Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero.
Desire MeDesire Me · 1947
Desire Me
6.51947
MovieRomanceWar
A war widow falls in love with the man who informed her of her husband's death.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde · 1941
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
6.51941
MovieDramaHorror
Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run amok.
KimKim · 1950
Kim
6.51950
MovieAdventureDrama
During the British Raj, the orphan of a British soldier poses as a Hindu and is torn between his loyalty to a Buddhist mystic and aiding the English secret service.
The CitadelThe Citadel · 1938
The Citadel
6.41938
MovieDramaRomance
Young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor Andrew Manson arrives in Wales and takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his attempts to prove its cause are thwarted, he moves to London. His new practice does poorly, but when a friend shows him how to make a lucrative practice from rich hypochondriacs, it will take a great shock to show him what the truth of being a doctor really is.
The Green YearsThe Green Years · 1946
The Green Years
6.41946
MovieDrama
An orphaned young boy is guided by his great-grandfather and strives to go to university to become a doctor. However, the boy's harsh grandfather stands in his way.
I Was a SpyI Was a Spy · 1933
I Was a Spy
6.41933
MovieDramaWar
During World War I, a young nurse in a hospital in German-occupied Belgium is secretly feeding military information to the British. Complicating matters is the guilt she feels when she has to treat the German casualties inflicted as a result of the information she's passed on, and the fact that the local German commandant is falling in love with her.
Friday the ThirteenthFriday the Thirteenth · 1933
Friday the Thirteenth
6.41933
MovieComedyDrama
It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen as his vehicle sails down an empty road. Suddenly, lightning strikes, and a vast crane above topples into the path of the oncoming bus... Then Big Ben begins to wind backwards. Time recedes. And we discover the lives of all the passengers and the events that brought them to that late-night bus journey, from the con-man with a hundred-pound cheque to the businessman's distraught and elderly wife. Time flows on, inevitably, to the crash -- and past it, as some live and some die.
The Earl of ChicagoThe Earl of Chicago · 1940
The Earl of Chicago
6.31940
MovieDrama
A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.

More Like This

Couldn't load this row right now.

Rate this film

Your ratings make Midnight smarter