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In Which We Serve

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In Which We Serve (1942)

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Reviews Counted:12

Fresh:11

Rotten:1

Average Rating:7.6/10

Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins

Genre: Action/Adventure

Synopsis: Partially based on an actual naval disaster, this documentary-style drama uses real combat footage to tell the story of the destroyer Torrin and its crew. After enemy torpedoes sink the British... Partially based on an actual naval disaster, this documentary-style drama uses real combat footage to tell the story of the destroyer Torrin and its crew. After enemy torpedoes sink the British ship, Captain Kinross, Chief Petty Officer Hardy and Shorty Blake reminisce in a lifeboat. While the three navy men pray they'll come out of this alive... back home during the Blitz, Shorty's wife Freda gives birth to their child. [More]

Starring: Noël Coward, John Mills, Bernard Miles, Celia Johnson

Starring: Noël Coward, John Mills, Bernard Miles, Celia Johnson

Director: Noël Coward, David Lean

Director: Noël Coward, David Lean

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Dec 2, 2003

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Though agit-prop and sentimental, this UK WWII drama is superior to Hollywood's patriotic flagwavers, and it's important historically, featuring the directorial debut of David Lean (with Noel Coward), who became a major international figure in the 1950s

Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | comment Comment
02/01/08
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
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Coward is at his peak in this patriotic, thoughtful WWII British production.

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01/10/08
Steve Crum
Steve Crum
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Noel Coward performed with unexpected brilliance here as co-director, writer, musical composer, and star of this stirring WWII drama.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
11/06/07
TV Guide's Movie Guide

No less than half a dozen credits for this film go to Noel Coward. And they're well earned.

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11/06/07
Variety Staff
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It's dated, but still holds up as one of the better flagwavers.

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03/22/07
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Staged with what passed at the time for honest understatement, it now looks impossibly patronising, the epitome of stiff upper lip.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
06/24/06
Tom Milne
Tom Milne
Time Out

Coward's tribute to the Royal Navy during World War II is as stirring as it is human. He puts a face on war and those who fight it.

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09/21/04
Bob Bloom
Bob Bloom
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No review available.

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09/05/03
Carol Cling
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal

In Which We Serve is not only one of the greatest of all British war movies but also marks the mighty David Lean's first major contribution to cinema.

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05/24/03
Richard Luck
Richard Luck
Channel 4 Film

One of the most eloquent motion pictures of these or any other times had its American premiére at the Capitol Theatre last night.

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05/20/03
Bosley Crowther
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Sentimental, to be sure, and a tad too stiff-upper-lipped at times, but it is a moving portrait of a navy destroyer, the men who served on it.

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04/27/03
Michael W. Phillips, Jr.
Michael W. Phillips, Jr.
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Perhaps the most honored propaganda film of World War II, in which the survivors of a torpedoed British battleship recall their reasons for fighting through individual flashbacks.

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01/01/00
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