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Bookmark this pageIn Which We Serve (1942)
Director: David Lean, Noël Coward
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From Time Out Film Guide
The story of a destroyer, its crew, and their flashback memories of the folks back home from a raft after being dive-bombed during the Battle of Crete. Staged with what passed at the time for honest understatement, it now looks impossibly patronising, the epitome of stiff upper lip as Coward's captain graciously condescends to his forelock- touching crew like an indulgent auntie. Interesting chiefly as a reminder of the structures of snobbery and privilege in the services which were largely responsible for Labour's postwar election victory.Author: TM
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- Posted on Mar 29 2008 10:58 Your film reviewer self-evidently knows nothing of life in the Royal Navy during WW2.
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Cast & crew
Director: David Lean, Noël Coward
Producer: Noël Coward
Cast: Noël Coward, John Mills, Bernard Miles, Celia Johnson, Joyce Carey, Kay Walsh, Michael Wilding, James Donald, Daniel Massey, Kathleen Harrison, Richard Attenborough full cast
Genre(s): War
Duration: 116 mins
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