Fluentiama Perfect cast and a good story

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Megamind To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

Kayden This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

Alex da Silva Noel Coward is captain of HMS Torrin, a British Navy destroyer, and he expects his crew to obey his philosophy. His ships are happy and efficient, so he likes to believe. The story is told in flashbacks as survivors cling to a dinghy after HMS Torrin is sunk.It's a propaganda film that is meant to rouse feelings of discipline and dedication to country in time of war. Everyone seems to put the ship before themselves or their loved ones. Even the sailor's wives put the ship first and understand that there is a higher purpose beyond their own personal happiness. From that perspective, it's all a bit ghastly for me, I'm afraid. I found the film dragged and also was very choppy – a bit here then another bit there. It could have had a more focused storyline.All the women are pretty awful in this. Celia Johnson who plays Coward's wife speaks in that laughably bad clipped English and seaman John Mill's mother as depicted by Kathleen Harrison (Mrs Blake) is just plain annoying. Coward's delivery is machine gunned at you so it's not always clear what he is saying. However, set against this, there is some amusing dialogue in parts. Overall, the film is too long and I'm not sure about the propaganda message of the war effort and expect heartbreak. Err, OK, it's a no thanks from me then.

grantss Great WW2 naval drama. Starring, produced and directed by Noel Coward, with music written by himself too (though David Lean co- directs and co-edits). Though a fictional story it is based around the true story of HMS Kelly, captained by Lord Louis Mountbatten and sunk off Crete in 1941. Apparently Mountbatten pitched the idea of the story of HMS Kelly being made into a movie to Noel Coward, and provided most of the detail.Great story, well told. Very realistic, down to the military commands and interactions.Great performances all round. Noel Coward is initially irritating - being rather stiff and dour in his role - but his character grows on you.Being made in 1942 as a war propaganda movie, it does have the inevitable one-eyed jingoistic scenes, butt these are mostly fairly subtle, unlike many WW2 movies.

screenman Noel Coward's take on naval warfare brings what is surely the stiffest upper lip to the silver screen. In fact every one of his features is an object lesson in emotional restraint. I am surprised he wasn't used more often. Coward apparently co-directed and starred, and it is very much his baby. His domineering personality dominates the movie. His is a very apt representation of the upper middle-class of the day. A sort of understated arrogance, a modest but stoical assumption of superiority. You could easily see why Colonel Sito threw exasperated tantrums at the River Kwai. Others have mentioned how this subtly manifests itself in English class hierarchy. The middle classes manage with a benign authority, whilst the working classes work - manually - and take orders. Things have changed - but not necessarily for the better; unless you're a fan of the inner cities being overwhelmed by drunken louts. There are some very good combat sequences which, eventually, sink the destroyer, and much of the movie is shown in flash-back from the view-points of various crew . It is well done, but not to my taste. I find it breaks up the narrative flow too much. Throughout the movie, Coward presents an image of unflappable professionalism, and you wonder how this stratum of human society became extinct so quickly. The 1960's have a lot to answer for.That same stoicism - though to a lesser extent - is expected of everyone else. In a particularly poignant scene one crew member learns of the death of another's wife and is obliged to tell him even as he is writing her a letter. His bereaved response is to 'just go on deck for a bit'. Back home, the ladies knit and bicker as the bombs fall, terrified but resolute. John Mills' more regular stiff upper lip co-stars, as indeed does that of a very boyish and uncredited Richard Attenborough, who actually cracks up. It makes an interesting comparison with the equally dated 'Went The Day Well?' in which that same British restraint is seen to dissolve in a very unbecoming bloodthirsty slaughter. And also the much more realistic 'The Cruel Sea' which, coming 11 years later in 1953, is no longer propaganda, but gritty and honest. Still, 'In Which We Serve' is well worth a watch both as an entertaining war movie in its own right and as an educational archive, a commentary on social and moral attitudes of the time.

Jackson Booth-Millard Directed by David Lean (The Bride on the River Kwai) and Noel Coward (also starring), both making their directorial debuts, this is quite a good British war film. It is a film that combines war ship battles and character flashbacks. Basically the British destroyer ship, HMS Torrin is attacked by the Nazis, and is sinking slowly, and as the surviving of the British ship cling to a life raft, they have flashbacks both of the (familiy) live they have left behind, and their work in the army and on the ship before the attack. Starring Coward as Capt. Edward V. Kinross, Sir John Mills as Ordinary Seaman Shorty Blake, The Man Who Knew Too Much's Bernard Miles as O Walter Hardy, Brief Encounter's Celia Johnson as Alix Kinross, Kay Walsh as Freda Lewis, Joyce Carey as Katherine Lemmon Hardy; Derek Elphinstone as First Lieutenant, the 'Torrin' (Number One); Michael Wilding as 'Flags', Second Lieutenant; Robert Sansom as 'Guns', Gunnery Officer; Philip Friend as 'Torps', Torpedo Officer, Ballard Berkeley as Engineer Commander, James Donald as Ship's doctor, Michael Whittaker as Sub and Lord Sir Richard Attenborough (in his film debut) as Snotty, Midshipman Who Leaves Post. It was nominated the Oscars for Best Picture and Best Writing, Original Screenplay, with a special Honorary Award for Coward. Sir John Mills was number 38 on The 50 Greatest British Actors, and the film was number 57 on The 100 Greatest War Films. Very good!