APPOINTMENT IN LONDON
(London Films) NEw ZEALANDERS who served with Bomber Command during the war, and came safe home, can probably be divided into two categories: those who never want to see a bomber again, and those who don’t mind if they do. Appointment in London (the title is almost meaningless) is about bombers, so Category I personnel can skip what follows. For those who don’t suffer from the same allergy I can give more’. detail. Appointment looks suspiciously like an attempt to repeat Mr. Zanuck’s Twelve O’Clock High, using British aircrews, Lancasters instead of Flying Forts, and Dirk Bogarde instead of Gregory Peck. There’s even a quiet old station adjutant (Anthony Shaw) to understudy the part played so well in the American film by Dean Jagger, and the ghost of a plaintive tune at the end, as if one of the studio researchers had just remembered the Whiffenpoof Song. The best that I can say about the film is that it contains several sequences of war photo-graphy-one of them fairly long-which should jar you into a fuller understanding of what night-bombing meant to those in the air and on the ground. But to use such film in association with second-rate studio work left me a little shocked and affronted.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 763, 5 March 1954, Page 19
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210APPOINTMENT IN LONDON New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 763, 5 March 1954, Page 19
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