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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. [2] 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. [3]
"Appointment in London" is an unusually-atmospheric, stylish and very-consistently-interesting late British WWII film. The subject is the pilots of British Bomber Command and the stresses they encounter in battles as the fly Lancasters in night missions over the European mainland.
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- Drama, Romance, War
- Philip Leacock
- 1955-09
Oct 31, 2022 · British Film, Classic Film, Appointment In London [Dirk Bogarde] [1953], Ian Hunter, Dinah Sheridan, Bryan ForbesWalter Fitzgerald, Bill Kerr, William Sylvester, Anne Leon, Charles Victor, Anthony Forwood.
- 92 min
- 375
- Lunar Monkey
Appointment in London. A grounded British wing commander (Dirk Bogarde) risks court-martial to make his 90th bombing run over Germany. Dirk Bogarde once again demonstrates why as an actor he...
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- Philip Leacock
- War
- Dirk Bogarde
Wing-commander Tim Mason leads a squadron of Lancaster bombers on almost nightly raids from England. Having flown eighty-seven missions he will shortly be retiring from flying, but the strain is showing. He tries to make sure his men concentrate only on their job and so keeps women away from the base, but then he himself meets naval officer Eve ...
Dirk Bogarde stars as Tim Mason, the officer of a British bomber squadron in World War II. Alarge-scale operation over Germany has been planned, and Tim is shocked...
Appointment in London is something of an undiscovered gem: perhaps the definitive film depicting life in RAF Bomber Command, written by John Wooldridge who himself flew over 90 missions during WWII (and also composed the music for the film).
