In Which We Serve (1942)
Directed by Noël Coward
The story of the HMS Torrin, from its construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action in World War II. The ship’s first and only commanding officer is Captain E.V. Kinross, who trains his men not only to be loyal to him and the country, but—most importantly—to themselves.
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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.”