Format:
[DVD] (138 Min.)
,
s/w
,
mono
Series Statement:
John Mills Centenary Collection I
Uniform Title:
In Which We Serve
Content:
"In Which We Serve" is only one in a long list of propaganda films turned out by England and the United States during World War II. Based on the actual service record of a British destroyer recounted to Noel Coward by Lord Mountbatten, it advances the standard line of support for the war effort and follows a familiar pattern by combining the story of H.M.S. Torrin, from shipyard to the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, with the personal lives of its captain and crew. Within this context, the film has its reputation. If it seems, at times, cloying or overeager on its way to the message of the closing title ("God bless our ships and all who sail on them."), it remains significant not just as Lean’s first attempt at directing an entire feature, but as a picture singled out for admiration by its contemporaries from among scores of similar efforts. [www.britmovie.co.uk]
Note:
engl. / UT: engl. für Hörgesch.
Language:
Undetermined
Keywords:
DVD-Video
