Final Appointment

John Bentley - Mike Billings
Eleanor Summerfield - Jenny Drew
Hubert Gregg - Hartnell
Jean Lodge - Laura Robens
Sam Kydd - Vickery
Meredith Edwards - Tom Martin
Liam Redmond - Inspector Corcoran

Capable comedy thriller directed by Terence Fisher, soon to direct several of the best Hammer horror films. A weak sequel entitled Stolen Assignment (1955) continued the adventures of Mike Billings and Jenny Drew.

Mike Billings (John Bentley), a tabloid reporter on the Sunday Star and his wisecracking journalist girlfriend (Eleanor Summerfield) are catapulted into a web of fear and intrigue when they unravel the clues to a series of murders while investigating anonymous threats against a retired Army officer. They soon discover that the clues are linked to a wartime court-martial, and certain events have occurred on the same day, July 10th, for three successive years. They suspect that the killer was a victim of an injustice at the court-martial, and is now wreaking revenge on those who sentenced him.