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Appendix 1: Synopses of films

Michael Anderson, ABPC, UK 1954.

Michael Redgrave; Richard Todd; Ursula Jeans.

Scientist Barnes Wallis (Redgrave) and RAF Squadron Leader Gibson
(Todd) successfully collaborate in bombing the Ruhr dams in 1943
using a specially invented bouncing bomb. This celebrated
incident from British war history is described with a loving and
apparently documentary attention to detail though the film's
meritocratic ideals have a distinctly 50s air.

Doctor At Sea

Ralph Thomas, Rank, UK 1955.

Dirk Bogarde; Brigitte Bardot; Brenda da Banzie; James Robertson
Justice; Maurice Denham.

Newly qualified Dr Sparrow (Bogarde) escapes the unwelcome
advances of his senior partner's daughter by going to sea as a
ship's doctor. Thereafter follows a series of comedy routines
purveying familiar stereotypes of British farce - foreigners,
unions, women, the class system - against a travelogue background
of blue seas and skies.

Doctor in the House

Ralph Thomas, Rank, UK 1954.

Dirk Bogarde; Kenneth More; Kay Kendall; Muriel Pavlow; Donald
Sinden; Donald Houston.

First of the popular 'Doctor' series, the film details the
medical training of Simon Sparrow (Bogarde), making the most of
its medical context and 'student' protagonists to produce comic
set pieces in the British music hall tradition.

Dr. No

Terence Young, UA, UK 1962.

Sean Connery; Ursula Andress.

First of the successful series of James Bond films based on Ian
Fleming's novels. In this one Bond (Connery) is pitted against
a master criminal operating in the West Indies, and the series'
format of lavish spectacle, violent action and female characters'
susceptibility to Bond's charismatic sexuality, is established.

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