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Amazon.com's Price: $14.95 Prices subject to change.
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: WESTLAKE ENTERTAINMENT INC
EAN: 0798622311023
Format: Color, Digital Sound, Original recording remastered, NTSC
Label: Westlake Ent. Group
Manufacturer: Westlake Ent. Group
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Westlake Ent. Group
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 01, 1942
Running Time: 115 minutes
Sales Rank: 19610
Studio: Westlake Ent. Group
Theatrical Release Date: December 23, 1942
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
IN WHICH WE SERVE (DVD MOVIE)
Amazon.com:
Based on the true story of Lord Mountbatten's destroyer, In Which We Serve is one of the most memorable British films made during World War II. Unfolding in flashback as survivors cling to a dinghy, the film interweaves the history of HMS Torrin with the onshore lives of its crew. The 1942 film was the inspiration of Noel Coward, who desperately wanted to do something for the war effort, and he produced, wrote the screenplay, composed the stirring score, and starred as Captain Edward Kinross. Coward also officially codirected, though he handed the reigns to David Lean (in his directorial debut). There is fine support from Celia Johnson and John Mills, as well as a star-making debut from an uncredited Richard Attenborough. The use of real navy and army personnel as extras, together with lavish studio production and authentic shipboard location footage, lends the film an unusual sense of realism. A landmark in the careers of many of the most important names in British film, this moving and occasionally harrowing classic has a vital place in the development of British cinema. --Gary S. Dalkin
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - H.M.S. Torrin
This WWII movie has Noel Coward written all over it. He acts in it, co-directs it with David Lean, and produced it. This movie goes into a great deal of detail about the life of the destroyer, her majesty's ship Torrin, and the crew on her. There is some action during fights with airplanes and ships, but most of the movie is centered on reflecting back on times aboard ship and on shore with families after the ship is sunk. These memories occur while they are trying to survive in a lifeboat while ... Read More
Rating:  - In Which We Serve
With Britain in the pit of the Second War, playwright Coward was desperate to do a morale-boosting film, and "Serve" was the inspired result. The normally effete Coward is appropriately "stiff upper lip" as Kinross, and a young Mills stands out in a first rate ensemble cast which also includes Bernard Miles and Celia Johnson as Coward's wife. (Also look fast for a young Richard Attenborough!) With Coward at the helm as writer, star, and even score composer, David Lean handling most of the directing ... Read More
Rating: - Island Race
How did he have the time to write such a picture, to co-direct it, to act in it and after everything else to write its score? Noel Coward's energies, always remarkable, were redoubled during the second World War, and it must have seemed like another excuse to show off his patriotism, which he wore like a second skin despite his slummy upbringing. IN WHICH WE SERVE is still worth watching, but it's nowhere as appealing as either CAVALCADE or THIS HAPPY BREED, and its focus on the "life and death of ... Read More
Rating: - Stiff Upper Lip British War Film
David Lean had a hand in directing this Noel Coward film and it shows in the documentary quality of the film. The movie is "The story of a ship" as we are told right off. I find the flashback technique to tell that story contrived and by now a hopeless cliché. When the picture gets bleary for one more recalled memory, you may struggle to suppress a laugh or a groan--but, darn it, the movie works. The ship emerges from the Scottish ship yard, goes to sea as war breaks out, and suffers casualties ... Read More
Rating: - Heart and will.. Beauty and truth!
David Lean's directorial debut was made with Noël Coward with a version of the playwright's "In Which We Serve"... The film's success led the pair to work together on three further films: "This Happy Breed," "Blithe Spirit," and "Brief Encounter."
English filmmakers had a prevailing direction to be more sensitive to the interplay of roles in wartime action...
Heroism was not the privilege of one man... With a common social understanding, working together, as the title of Noël ... Read More
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