In Which We Serve (1942)
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Noël Coward, John Mills, Bernard Miles, Celia Johnson
DVD Info
Release:
Dec 28, 2004
DVD Features:
- Region (unknown)
- Keep Case
- Full Frame - 1.33
Interactive Features:
- Scene Access
- Interactive Menus
Text/Photo Galleries:
- Photo Galleries
- Filmographies
- Biographies
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Reviews
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
Coward is at his peak in this patriotic, thoughtful WWII British production.
Noel Coward performed with unexpected brilliance here as co-director, writer, musical composer, and star of this stirring WWII drama.
No less than half a dozen credits for this film go to Noel Coward. And they're well earned.
It's dated, but still holds up as one of the better flagwavers.
Staged with what passed at the time for honest understatement, it now looks impossibly patronising, the epitome of stiff upper lip.
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.
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.
One of the most eloquent motion pictures of these or any other times had its American premiére at the Capitol Theatre last night.
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.
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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