inward Which We Serve – 1943 – Noël Coward

The Story …

This is the story of a ship”. inward 1941 HMS Torrin engages German transports inward a nighttime-time action during the Battle of Crete but at dawn, the destroyer comes under attack from German bombers.

A critical hit forces the crew to abandon the ship as it rapidly capsizes. Some of the officers and ratings care to find a Carley float while being intermittently strafed by German planes.

The story of the ship is told inward flashbacks, using their memories. The first individual to reveal his thoughts is Captain Kinross, who recalls the summer of 1939 when the Torrin is being rushed into commission as the possibility of war becomes a nigh certainty.

The Torrin spends a quiet Christmas inward the N of Scotland during the Phoney War but inward 1940 it fights its first engagement during the Battle of Narvik. During the action, the ship is struck by a torpedo. The damaged Torrin is towed back to port, all the time being harried by dive bombers.

Safely back inward harbour, Captain Kinross tells the assembled ship’s company that during the battle nearly all the crew performed as he would expect but i adult male did non. However, he surprises everyone when he says that he allow him off with caution as he feels that, as captain, he failed to create him understand his duty.

Returning to the present, the float survivors watch the capsized Torrin take on water and slowly sink. The raft is again strafed by German planes and some men are killed or wounded.

Shorty Blake recalls inward flashback how he met his wife-to-be, Freda, on a train while on leave of absence. She is related to the Torrin’s affable Chief Petty Officer Hardy. When both men return to sea, Freda moves inward with Hardy’s wife and female parent-inward-law.

The Torrin participates inward the Dunkirk evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force (portrayed inward the film by the 5th Battalion of the Coldstream Guards). Blake gets a alphabetic character to say that Freda has given birth to his son during the Plymouth Blitz but that Hardy’s wife and female parent-inward-law were killed. He has to tell Hardy, who is writing a alphabetic character home, the bitter tidings.

The survivors on the life raft watch the Torrin finally sink. Captain Kinross leads a final “three cheers” for the Torrin. A British destroyer soon begins rescuing the men. Captain Kinross talks to the survivors and collects addresses from the dying.

Telegrams are sent to the crew’s loved ones. Kinross addresses the ship’s survivors inward a armed services depot inward Alexandria inward Egypt. He tells them that although they lost their ship and many friends, who at present “prevarication together inward fifteen hundred fathoms”, he notes that these losses should inspire them to fight even harder inward the battles to come.

Captain Kinross then shakes hands with all the ratings as they leave of absence the depot. When the lastly adult male goes, the emotionally tired captain silently acknowledges his surviving officers before walking away.

Credits :

Directed by : Noël Coward & David Lean
Written by : Noël Coward
Produced by : Noël Coward
Narrated by : Leslie Howard
Cinematography : Ronald Neame
Edited by : Thelma Connell & David Lean
Music by : Noël Coward & Clifton Parker
Distributed by : British king of beasts Films

Cast :

Noël Coward, Bernard Miles, John Mills, Celia Johnson, Joyce Carey, Kay Walsh, Michael Wilding, Derek Elphinstone, Leslie Dwyer, James Donald, Philip Friend, Frederick Piper, Richard Attenborough, Kathleen Harrison, George Carney, Daniel Massey, Ann Stephens, Walter Fitzgerald, Hubert Gregg, Penelope Dudley-Ward.

Film info Source :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Which_We_Serve

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