Out of the Clouds is a 1955 British drama film directed by Basil Dearden and starring Anthony Steel, Robert Beatty and James Robertson Justice.

Pilot Gus Randall is a compulsive gambler who is caught up in a smuggling ring as well as a love triangle; Nick Millbourne is the chief duty officer who wants to get back in the sky and vies with Gus for the attention of stewardess Penny Henson and passengers Bill Steiner and German Leah Rosch cross paths on opposite journeys; after their flights are grounded by bad weather, they fall in love.

[6] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Out of the Clouds tollows a pattern familiar in the British cinema – the attempt to keep two or three dramatic stories running concurrently against a background recorded in almost documentary detail.

...The film relies considerably on small-part players and marginal incidents; the detail, however, never looks like adding up to a satisfactory whole.

As is usual in such Ealing pictures, and in this one more than most, the background and setting are more interesting than the foreground characters, and Paul Beeson’s EastmanColour photography provides a fascinating record of how Heathrow looked in its early days.

"[10] The authors of the 2009 book The Cinema of Basil Dearden and Michael Relph conclude that the film's background and its setting are more interesting than its characters.