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Originally Posted by garinda

'In Which We Serve' (1942)

Terrible, jingoistic rubbish.

They were actually just 'friends' by the way. Coward was actually in a relationship with Mountbatten's cousin Prince George, Duke of Kent, the present Queen's uncle.

But so accurate in its detail about navy life of the day garinda and the attitude of the officers to the men on the lower deck. Not forgetting the attitude of the men to the officers. It was much the same in the fifties except we didn’t have people chucking bombs, shells and torpedoes at us.

This late afternoon on Film 4 was another British wartime classic that is on a par with the best of them all - The Cruel Sea starring Jack Hawkins.

The Gift Horse starring Trevor Howard (Sid James was in it too and Richard Attenborough and Bernard Lee) was about a lease lend destroyer and the men serving in her. Great film and it brought back memories except that we slept in hammocks and not bunks. And HMS Alamein had more guns and 10 torpedo tubes. Strange that because the fighting “A” was an anti-aircraft destroyer. I mean how do you fire a torpedo at a plane?

Pity they never made a film of the book HMS Ulysses but I doubt if the censors would have allowed it