Appointment in London
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Original cinema poster
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| Directed by | Philip Leacock |
| Produced by |
Aubrey Baring Maxwell Setton |
| Screenplay by |
John Wooldridge Robert Westerby |
| Story by | John Wooldridge |
| Starring |
Dirk Bogarde Ian Hunter Dinah Sheridan |
| Music by | John Wooldridge |
| Cinematography | Stephen Dade |
| Edited by | V. Sagovsky |
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Production
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Mayflower Pictures Corp.
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| Distributed by | British Lion Films (UK) |
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Running time
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96 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Appointment in London (known as Raiders in the Sky in the U.S.) is a 1953 British war film set during the Second World War and starring Dirk Bogarde. The film was directed by Philip Leacock and based on a story by John Wooldridge, who as an RAF bomber pilot flew 108 operational sorties over Europe. Wooldridge, who after the war established himself as a successful film composer before being killed in a car accident in 1958, also wrote the film score and participated in writing the screenplay.
Appointment in London is set in an RAF Bomber Command squadron during 1943 and tells of a wing commander's attempt to finish his third and final tour of 30 operations. A sub-plot involves his relationship with a widowed wren in whom an American observer attached to his airfield is also interested.
Wing Commander Tim Mason (Dirk Bogarde) is nearing the end of his third tour of operations, meaning that he has flown nearly 90 missions over Germany. Having twice volunteered to continue operational flying, Mason is keen to make it a round 90 "ops", but just as he is nearing the end of his tour he receives orders banning him from further flying. Meanwhile, losses are mounting and several raids are being seen as failures, so that some of the members of his crews, Brown (Bill Kerr) and "The Brat" Greeno (Bryan Forbes) among them, are thinking that there must be a "jinx" at work. Soon afterwards, "The Brat" is caught sending unauthorised telegrams off the station. These turn out to be written to his wife, Pam (Anne Leon), rather than anything more sinister; however, Mason reprimands Greeno for the lapse in security. A few days later, Greeno's aircraft fails to return from a raid and Mason agrees to meet Pam, who has asked to see him.
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