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 Coward's and David Lean's "In Which We Serve" suggests...
The film, one of the finest wartime dramas to come out of Britain, tells the story of an English destroyer HMS Torrin, sunk in the Mediterranean Sea by the Germans, during the Battle of Crete...
As commander and crew keep close to the life raft, the screen fades gradually to take us back in active to the commission of the ship...
By concentrating on each member of the crew a different memory is relieved, and each flashback advances the story of the life of the ship and the men who served on her...
It is a magnificent film about courage and dedication, devotion and sacrifice... It is a tribute to the spirit of the western democracies but also to the spirit of the British people who would not admit defeat...
A last but one powerful moving scene is the farewell on Alexandria's dock of the Torrin's Captain (Noël Coward) to the few remaining seaman survivors...
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 Coward's and David Lean's "In Which We Serve" suggests...
The film, one of the finest wartime dramas to come out of Britain, tells the story of an English destroyer HMS Torrin, sunk in the Mediterranean Sea by the Germans, during the Battle of Crete...
As commander and crew keep close to the life raft, the screen fades gradually to take us back in active to the commission of the ship...
By concentrating on each member of the crew a different memory is relieved, and each flashback advances the story of the life of the ship and the men who served on her...
It is a magnificent film about courage and dedication, devotion and sacrifice... It is a tribute to the spirit of the western democracies but also to the spirit of the British people who would not admit defeat...
A last but one powerful moving scene is the farewell on Alexandria's dock of the Torrin's Captain (Noël Coward) to the few remaining seaman survivors...