Noël Coward
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This briny war film can take its place among the greats – The Cruel Sea, Western Approaches, Das Boot, In Which We Serve.
An interesting comparison to Hanks as a more modern ship’s commander in Captain Phillips (2013), the old-fashioned universality of Greyhound , a WWII thriller boiled down to its most basic components, is not far off from the Noel Coward scripted debut of David Lean in 1942’s In Which We Serve .
The king and his prime minister remain offscreen, but their on-site representative, the highest-ranking officer at Dunkirk, is Commander Bolton, a fictional character played by Kenneth Branagh with a weary stiff upper lip that owes a great deal (and comfortingly so) to the Noel Coward of the 1942 WWII classic “In Which We Serve.”