In Which we Serve

This clip was edited by me from a DVD.
It starts off with my titles then a couple of stills which show where Jack Combe is located in the crowd, followed by the actual clip itself.
Dad always said he was in the film but we had trouble locating him, until Ian got a copy, then I did this bit of wizardry.
Noel Coward mentions Combe (Coombe) but looks at someone else.I think the names were drawn out of a hat for the script, so he even gets a mention.

This small vignette, is part of a major picture made during WWII.


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.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• WW2
• Noel
• Coward
• Jack
• Combe
• John
• Mills
• Richard
• Attenborough

[lensadie]

my grandad is in the opening titles of this film

[webtv123dotcom]

And who might that be?

My Dad was just an Ordinary Gunner (First Class) in the Navy, who happened to be there when ordered to do so.

Great to have some memories though.

Andy

[BigIronOnHipMan2]

One of th GREATEST films ever...AND...in my ledger

" IN WHICH WE SERVE " is an -- ESSENTIAL!

[djStrimmer]

BTW Richard Attenborough not David in this film. Compare this scene with Noel Coward addressing gangsters in the 'Italian Job' at Aunt Nellie's funeral.

[WimGrundy]

Against All Odds: Rule Britannia!

[WinchesterRanger]

Coward was certainly good at handling his men.

Cough.

[knausspiano]

Great movie. When the camera moves along the line of evacuated Dunkirk troops it is quite moving. Great performances by Coward and also Bernard Miles especially.

[kipps2]

The perfect captain! A good morale boosting film.

Sadly western civilization is almost dead on its feet.

[BenMCcrash]

my great grandfarther was in that war in this film some body plays him i cant remember his first name but his last name is robbinson.

[Oneandoneself]

im joinin

[coverley1]

Great Clip ,I have started a group on Facebook for this movie,and i have added two clips this clip as well as one other

[dglekjofg]

In this film Noel Coward is super charming from beginning to end.