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Appointment with Venus (1951)
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June 1952 (USA) moreTagline:
They came home with the milk!Plot:
At the outbreak of WWII the British realise they can't prevent the invasion of the Channel Islands. However... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
It would be perfectly ripping, old chum, if you would hop right back over there and get the cows. moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | David Niven | ... | Maj. Valentine Moreland |
 | Glynis Johns | ... | Nicola Fallaize |
| George Coulouris | ... | Capt. Weiss |
 | Barry Jones | ... | Provost |
| Kenneth More | ... | Lionel Fallaize |
| Noel Purcell | ... | Trawler Langley |
| Bernard Lee | ... | Brigadier |
| Jeremy Spenser | ... | Georges |
| Patric Doonan | ... | Sgt. Forbes |
| Martin Boddey | ... | Sgt. Vogel |
| John Horsley | ... | Naval Officer Kent |
| George Benson | ... | Senior clerk |
| Richard Wattis | ... | Carruthers (higher executive) |
| David Horne | ... | Magistrate |
| Geoffrey Sumner | ... | Major, Vet. Corps |
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)Certification:
Australia:G | USA:Approved (PCA #15354) | Finland:S | Sweden:15 | UK:U (original rating)Fun Stuff
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"Appointment with Venus" author Jerrard Tickell, who also wrote "Odette", wrote that the germ of the idea for his novel, and delightful movie, came ten years or more in the past when he had a conversation with a Colonel "Duke" Wright in the British War Office. In 1940, Wright was O.C. at Guernsey and, with the fall of France, had the dangerous task of evacuating the garrison from the Channel Islands. After a nightmare journey, the exhausted, unshaven but triumphant Wright reported to the War Office at three in the morning that not a man had been lost. The junior officer who greeted him remarked what a pity it was that the Colonel had failed to bring any pedigreed cows with him. And added, "I suppose you couldn't go back and collect some." Tickell wrote that Colonel Wright's reply was as pungent as it was unprintable.