| Final Appointment | |
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| Directed by | Terence Fisher |
| Written by | Kenneth Hayles |
| Based on | theBBC radio playDeath Keeps a Date by Sidney Nelson & Maurice Harrison[1][2] |
| Produced by | Francis Searle |
| Starring | John Bentley Eleanor Summerfield Hubert Gregg |
| Cinematography | Jonah Jones |
| Edited by | John Ferris |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Monarch Film Corporation |
Release date |
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Running time | 65 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Final Appointment (U.S. title:The Last Appointment[3]) is a 1954 Britishsecond feature ('B')[4]comedy thriller film directed byTerence Fisher, and starringJohn Bentley,Eleanor Summerfield andHubert Gregg.[5][6] It also featuresArthur Lowe, later to become famous for his portrayal ofCaptain Mainwaring inDad's Army, in an early role.[7] The film was produced byFrancis Searle forACTFilms.[8] A sequel,Stolen Assignment, also featuring sleuthing journalists Mike Billings and Jenny Drew, was released the following year.[9]
A former soldier who wascourt-martialled during theSecond World War sets out to murder the officers who passed sentence on him. After the lawyer who acted for the prosecution at the court martial receives threatening letters a newspaper reporter and his wisecracking girlfriend try to track down the killer.
The film was shot atWalton Studios outsideLondon.
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Formula crime melodrama, in which a clever young journalist solves a crime in the intervals of exchanging back-chat with his reporter girl friend and a police inspector."[10]
Kine Weekly described the film as an "inconsequential crime melodrama."[11]
TheRadio Times gave the film two out of five stars, calling it a "capable thriller."[12]