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In Which We Serve

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In Which We Serve	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })In Which We Serve is a 1942 British war film co-directed by David Lean and Noël Coward.It was based on a script, music, and production by Coward, who also plays the starring role of Captain Kinross. It is the tale of the HMS Torrin, a Royal Navy destroyer. The Torrin goes into action off of Crete in 1941, only to be sunk by the Luftwaffe. As Captain Kinross and his crew scramble for life rafts, their stories and the history of the ship are told in a series of flashbacks. Through these flashbacks we get a portrait of the early years of the war and how all of Britain is fighting.The film was made during World War II to boost up the morale of the British military and the people at home. The story is based on the 1941 sinking of the British destroyer HMS Kelly and Lord Mountbatten's recollections of this event. It's widely seen as one of the classics of British cinema, especially regarding war time films.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })The film won an Honorary Academy Award for the production and was nominated for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay. In Which We Serve credits Noël Coward as Star, Producer, Writer, Composer and Director, the last credit being shared with David Lean. However, the 'director' part is debatable, the original intention was for Coward to direct the actors and Lean to direct the action sequences, but as the film went on Coward became bored with the film-making and left most of the work to Lean.John Mills plays Shorty Blake, a sailor aboard the Torrin with a pregnant wife back home in England. Richard Attenborough made his film debut as a young stoker.
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In Which We Serve / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
In Which We Serve / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: The ship's surgeon grouses about how he doesn't have anything to do. Shortly thereafter we see him grumpily playing solitaire in sickbay. Then the ship goes into combat for the first time, and sickbay winds up filled to the rafters with the wounded.
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In Which We Serve / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
In Which We Serve / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: It's part of the Book of Common Prayer for prayers to be used at sea, referencing "the fleet in which we serve."
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In Which We Serve / int_1902e67d	type	I Am Very British
In Which We Serve / int_1902e67d	comment	I Am Very British: This entire film is as British as you can get. "Keep calm and carry on" could very well be its tagline.
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In Which We Serve / int_19d06ef7	type	A Father to His Men
In Which We Serve / int_19d06ef7	comment	A Father to His Men: Captain Kinross cares about the well being of his sailors. He is seen visiting the wounded and gives several inspirational speeches. When one of the more inexperienced sailors leaves his post in fear during battle, Kinross doesn't punish him, instead blaming himself for not getting through to the man.
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In Which We Serve / int_1e7159cf	type	Propaganda Machine
In Which We Serve / int_1e7159cf	comment	Propaganda Machine: This movie was made during World War II when the United Kingdom was in battle with Nazi Germany. It was backed financially by the British Ministry of Information.
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In Which We Serve / int_23be181a	type	Patriotic Fervor
In Which We Serve / int_23be181a	comment	Patriotic Fervor: The British love their island and will defend it at all cost.
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In Which We Serve / int_2534ee67	type	In Medias Res
In Which We Serve / int_2534ee67	comment	In Medias Res: There's no characterization to start, as the film begins with the ship in combat against the Germans in the waters off of Crete, May 1941.
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In Which We Serve / int_2612a967	type	It Has Been an Honor
In Which We Serve / int_2612a967	comment	It Has Been an Honor: "I should like to add that there isn't one of you that I wouldn't be proud and honored to serve with again."
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In Which We Serve / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
In Which We Serve / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The Torrin was sunk. Less than half of its crew escaped alive, and at least one crew member lost his wife in the Blitz. But the British will keep calm, and carry on.
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In Which We Serve / int_4856ac40	type	Stock Footage
In Which We Serve / int_4856ac40	comment	Stock Footage: Some action scenes are stock footage of actual battle scenes. At a certain point actual footage of Adolf Hitler visiting Paris is seen by characters in a theater. The scene where the crew listens to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's September 3, 1939 radio speech announcing the start of the war is also actual audio footage.
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In Which We Serve / int_52488c54	type	Drowning My Sorrows
In Which We Serve / int_52488c54	comment	Drowning My Sorrows: Richard Attenborough's sailor, who feels guilty for having left his post in fear during battle, tries to get drunk afterwards in a bar.
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In Which We Serve / int_53c9fc92	type	Flashback
In Which We Serve / int_53c9fc92	comment	Flashback: While awaiting rescue in the sea, the captain and his shipmates think back about how their mission started.
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In Which We Serve / int_5fb5be92	type	Spot of Tea
In Which We Serve / int_5fb5be92	comment	Spot of Tea: At the start of the film the captain and his mate are given some tea to drink.
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In Which We Serve / int_6b7e3069	type	Birth-Death Juxtaposition
In Which We Serve / int_6b7e3069	comment	Birth/Death Juxtaposition: Shorty's wife Freda is living with Walter's wife Kath. A bomb falls on the house. Kath is killed. A heavily pregnant Freda, saved because she was under the stairs, delivers a healthy boy shortly thereafter.
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In Which We Serve / int_71105dfc	type	Everybody Smokes
In Which We Serve / int_71105dfc	comment	Everybody Smokes: Men and women join in to smoke cigarettes at various moments during this film.
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In Which We Serve / int_716c0b1b	type	And the Adventure Continues
In Which We Serve / int_716c0b1b	comment	And the Adventure Continues: The movie ends with Kinross commanding another destroyer, out at sea.
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In Which We Serve / int_786bf97f	type	Real Life Writes the Plot
In Which We Serve / int_786bf97f	comment	Real Life Writes the Plot: The script was inspired by the loss of the destroyer HMS Kelly during the Battle of Crete in 1941, sunk during the frantic effort to evacuate British soldiers from the island. It was commanded by Lord Mountbatten (grandson of Queen Victoria, cousin of King George VI).
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In Which We Serve / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
In Which We Serve / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here: After the opening of the sequence which shows the destroyer being sunk off the coast of Crete, the camera follows Captain Kinross into the water. Then the film jumps back to 1939 and the commissioning of the destroyer just before the war.
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In Which We Serve / int_8879db82	type	Badass Crew
In Which We Serve / int_8879db82	comment	Badass Crew: The British military suffer, but are still admirable in their courage and dedication.
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In Which We Serve / int_88a97dd4	type	Stiff Upper Lip
In Which We Serve / int_88a97dd4	comment	Stiff Upper Lip: All the characters keep calm, stoic and don't let their emotions get in the way whatever tragedy happens. Not just the soldiers and sailors, whose job it is, but their womenfolk too. One bridge officer actually tells another one to "keep a stiff upper lip, old boy."
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In Which We Serve / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
In Which We Serve / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Well, it's a British war movie, what do you expect?
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In Which We Serve / int_b58c51d8	type	My Beloved Smother
In Which We Serve / int_b58c51d8	comment	My Beloved Smother: Walter's wife Kath has a mother that is constantly sniping at her.
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In Which We Serve / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
In Which We Serve / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: The young stoker played by Richard Attenborough is never named, not even when he has his own scene drinking in a bar.
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In Which We Serve / int_d028ca10	type	Deliberately Monochrome
In Which We Serve / int_d028ca10	comment	Deliberately Monochrome: The movie is in black-and-white, which helps to intercut with Stock Footage of battle scenes. In any case, shooting in Technicolor would have been far more expensive and technically challenging.
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In Which We Serve / int_d54b9eb3	type	Inter-Service Rivalry
In Which We Serve / int_d54b9eb3	comment	Interservice Rivalry: One scene has a sailor and a Marine argue about which is better. A later scene has the captain instruct his sailors not to engage in "leg-pulling" with the soldiers they are about to rescue off the Dunkirk beaches.
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In Which We Serve / int_eb682304	type	Wartime Wedding
In Which We Serve / int_eb682304	comment	Wartime Wedding: Enlisted sailor Shorty Blake gets married to Flora while home on leave.
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In Which We Serve / int_f5f79e56	type	Hard-Work Montage
In Which We Serve / int_f5f79e56	comment	Hard-Work Montage: The film opens with a montage showing the construction of a battleship, before the story proper starts.
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