Appointment in London

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.

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, Greenos aircraft fails to return from a raid and Mason agrees to meet Pam, who has asked to see him.With only one more flight to go, he accepts that the decision to ground him was for his own good, and he visits Browns aircraft as Brown and his crew prepare to take off on a mission. As the crew board the Lancaster the large 4,000lb cookie bomb that is part of the bombers load, slips from the bomb shackles and injures one of the crew. With no time to obtain a replacement crew member, US observer Mac Baker William Sylvester takes his place. Mason decides to go as well, to reassure the crews worries about the jinx, and the bomber takes off. ........

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