Appointment in London is a 1952 war film starring Dirk Bogarde and set during World War II. Unlike his brother, the documentary filmmaker Richard Leacock filmmaker Philip Leacock (*8 October 1917 in London - 1990) spent his childhood in the Canary Islands. ... Wing Commander John De Lacy Wooldridge DSO, DFC and Bar DFM (18 July 1919 – 27 October 1958) was a British film composer. ... Wing Commander John De Lacy Wooldridge DSO, DFC and Bar DFM (18 July 1919 – 27 October 1958) was a British film composer. ... See also: 1952 in film 1953 1954 in film 1950s in film years in film film Events September 16 - The Robe debuts as the first anamorphic, widescreen CinemaScope film. ... 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ... Dirk Bogarde Sir Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde (28 March 1921 – 8 May 1999), better known by his stage name Dirk Bogarde, was an actor and author. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...

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. It tells of the leader of the squadron's attempt to finish his third and final 'tour' of thirty operations. Unlike his brother, the documentary filmmaker Richard Leacock filmmaker Philip Leacock (*8 October 1917 in London - 1990) spent his childhood in the Canary Islands. ... Wing Commander John De Lacy Wooldridge DSO, DFC and Bar DFM (18 July 1919 – 27 October 1958) was a British film composer. ... Bomber Command badge RAF Bomber Command was the organisation that controlled the RAFs bomber forces. ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ... Planning, calculating, or the giving or receiving of information. ...

Plot

Wing Commander Tim Mason is nearing the end of his third tour of operations, meaning he has flown nearly 90 flights 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 of the station. These turn out to be written to his wife, Pam, rather than anything more sinister, however Mason reprimands Greeno for the lapse in security. Soon after, Greeno's aircraft fails to return from a raid and Mason agrees to meet Pam, who has asked to see him. Wing Commander (rank) is a rank in the Royal Air Force, equivalent to a Lieutenant Colonel in most Armies, the Royal Marines and the United States Marine Corps. ... A jinx, in popular superstition and folklore, is: A sort of curse placed on a person that makes them prey to large numbers of minor misfortunes and other forms of bad luck; A person afflicted with a similar curse, who, while not directly subject to a series of misfortunes, seems... Telegraphy (from the Greek words tele = far away and grapho = write) is the long distance transmission of written messages without physical transport of letters, originally over wire. ...

With only one more flight to go he accepts that the decision to ground him was for his own good, and he visits Brown's aircraft as Brown and his crew prepare to take off on a mission. As the crew board the Lancaster the large 4000lb 'Cookie' bomb that is part of the bomber's load slips from the bomb shackles and injures one of the crew. With no time to obtain a replacement crew member, Mason takes his place and the bomber takes off. The mission is flown and while the target is being attacked the Master Bomber is shot down, causing the remaining bombers to bomb inaccurately. Hearing and seeing this, Mason takes the Master Bomber's place on the radio, broadcasting corrections and accurate instructions, and the bombing becomes accurate again. Listening-in to the Master Bomber's broadcast back in England Mason's Commanding Officer, Logan (Hunter) hears Mason's voice and realises that he's disobeyed orders and flown on the operation. However, due to Mason's intervention the raid, which could have been a failure, has been a success, and on Mason's return Logan greets him at his aircraft. At the end of the movie Mason, along with Brown, and Greeno's Wife, Pam, take a taxi to Buckingham Palace to receive an award from the King - the so-called 'appointment' referred-to in the film's title. The Avro Lancaster was a British four-engine Second World War bomber aircraft made initially by Avro for the British Royal Air Force (RAF). ... A 4000lb Blockbuster or Cookie about to be loaded into a de Havilland Mosquito Blockbuster was the name given to several of the largest conventional bombs used in World War II by the Royal Air Force (RAF). ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London (de facto) Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2006 est. ... Buckingham Palace and the Victoria Memorial. ... George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George) (December 14, 1895 - February 6, 1952) was the third British monarch of the House of Windsor, reigning from December 11, 1936 to February 6, 1952. ...

Cast

• Dirk Bogarde as Tim Mason
• Ian Hunter as Logan
• Dinah Sheridan as Eve Canyon
• Bryan Forbes as The Brat (Greeno)
• Bill Kerr as Bill Brown
• William Sylvester as Mac
• Richard Wattis as Pascal
• Sam Kydd as Ackroyd
• Anne Leon as Pam Greeno

Dirk Bogarde Sir Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde (28 March 1921 – 8 May 1999), better known by his stage name Dirk Bogarde, was an actor and author. ... Ian Hunter as Dr. Lanyon in MGMs (1941) Ian Hunter (b. ... Dinah Sheridan (born Dinah Mec in Hampstead, London on 17 September 1920) is a popular English-born actress who appeared in the film Genevieve (1954). ... Bryan Forbes, CBE (born John Theobald Clark on July 22, 1926 in London) is an English film director, actor and writer. ... Bill Kerr (born 1922) is an Australian film and television actor. ... William Sylvester (January 31, 1922 - January 25, 1995) was an American TV and film actor. ... Richard Wattis (born February 25, 1912 in Staffordshire, England — died February 1, 1975), was an English actor. ... Sam Kydd (born February 15, 1915, in Belfast, Ireland - March 26, 1982) was an Irish-born actor. ...

Production

The music was also written by Wooldridge and performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra under his conduction. The Philharmonia Orchestra is an orchestra based in London. ...

The film was produced by Aubrey Baring and Maxwell Setton and shot at British Lion's Shepperton Studios and at RAF Upwood. British Lion Films Corporation is a film production and distribution company active under several forms since 1919. ... Shepperton Studios, located in Shepperton, Middlesex, England is a film studio with a long history of film making. ... RAF Upwood is a United States Air Force installation adjacent to the village of Upwood, Cambridgeshire in the United Kingdom. ...

Trivia

Three of the Lancaster B VII bombers, NX673, NX679 and NX782, used in the film, also appeared in The Dam Busters two years later. The Avro Lancaster was a British four-engine Second World War bomber aircraft made initially by Avro for the British Royal Air Force (RAF). ... The Dam Busters is a 1954 British war film, set during World War II, and documenting the true story of the RAFs 617 Squadron, the development of the bouncing bomb, and Operation Chastise - the attack on the Ruhr dams in Germany. ...

In some ground shots several of the 'Lancasters' in the background are in fact the later Lincolns. A line up of Avro Lincoln B.IIs (B.2) The Avro 694 Lincoln was a British 4-engined heavy bomber of World War II, first flying on June 9, 1944 and entering service in August 1945, too late to be used in action. ...

Reference

IMDb entry for Appointment in London