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Release Date: 1952 Cast: Dinah Sheridan, Bill Kerr, Dirk Bogarde, Ian Hunter
Categories: Movies, Combat Films, Adventure, Black-and-white, War film Appointment in London (known as Raiders in the Sky in the US) is a 1952 war film starring Dirk Bogarde and set during World War II. The film was directed by Philip Leacock from a screenplay by John Wooldridge and Robert Westerby and based on an original story by Wooldridge. The film is set in an RAF Bomber Command squadron during 1943 and tells of the Wing Commander's atttempt to finish his third and final 'tour' of thirty operations.
Wing Commander Tim Mason ([Bogarde) is nearing the end of his third tour of operations, meaning he has flown nearly 90 missions over Germany. Having twice... MORE
Appointment in London (known as Raiders in the Sky in the US) is a 1952 war film starring Dirk Bogarde and set during World War II. The film was directed by Philip Leacock from a screenplay by John Wooldridge and Robert Westerby and based on an original story by Wooldridge. The film is set in an RAF Bomber Command squadron during 1943 and tells of the Wing Commander's atttempt to finish his third and final 'tour' of thirty operations.
Wing Commander Tim Mason ([Bogarde) is nearing the end of his third tour of operations, meaning 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 when 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 (Kerr) and 'The Brat' Greeno (Forbes) among them, are thinking that there must be a 'jinx' at work. Soon after 'The Brat' is then caught sending unauthorised telegrams off the station. These turn out to be written to his wife, Pam, rather than anything more sinister, however Mason reprimands Greeno LESS
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