A British bomber crew of the RAF is shot down over the Netherlands but are able to bail out before crashing. Five of the six crewmembers find each other soon on the ground, but the sixth one is missing. Their duty is now to find their missing friend and get back to England in one piece, but how? The Dutch resistance plays a major part in the story and in the airmen’s escape.

One of Our Aircraft is Missing is a bit unusual in the way that it’s not the RAF pilots that are the heroes, the heroes are the Dutch people and the resistance. It’s their plan, their job to try and make it work, they set everything up and the pilots are merely tagging along. For a wartime film it is strange not to have the RAF pilots the heroes, but it works without a doubt and it’s great to get a look into the resistance’s underground movement. It’s primarily the Dutch women that helps them with the escape plans, risking their own lives doing so. It’s also unusual for having a large part of the dialog in Dutch, but even without subtitles you will be able to understand the majority of it, with the important parts being translated for the RAF pilots.

With no musical score the only sound we hear are the same sounds the pilots hear, this helps to contribute to the realistic feel of the movie. Powell and Pressburger is a great team, this is their first movie where they both share writing, producer and director credit and it’s a brilliant movie, one of the best made during the wartime era.