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Film details
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Featuring
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Directors
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Country
United Kingdom
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Year
1942
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Genre
War
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Type
Film
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Category
Fiction
Introduction
“Noël Coward performed with unexpected brilliance here as co-director, writer, musical composer and star of this stirring WWII drama.”
The Virgin Film Guide
A hugely successful playwright, performer and entertainer before World War II, Noël Coward was criticised in Britain during the conflict, and responded by writing, directing and starring in this superior propaganda effort.
Inspired by the experiences of his friend Louis Mountbatten, whose HMS Kelly was sunk during the battle for Crete, it follows the progress of a fictional Royal Navy destroyer and its crew, with Coward the captain and well-known British actors (John Mills, Richard Attenborough) lower down the ranks.
If Coward’s view that the country is fighting to preserve Britain’s traditional social hierarchy now seems somewhat condescending, the film’s sincerity and restraint remain moving. It earned Coward a special Academy Award for “outstanding production achievement”.
Coward’s key creative collaborators on this project – co-director and editor David Lean, and cinematographer Ronald Neame – went on to become famed directors in their own right.
Cast & Credits
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Cast
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[Narrator]
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'D', Captain Edward V. Kinross RN
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Ordinary Seaman Shorty Blake
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Chief Petty Officer Walter Hardy
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Mrs Alix Kinross
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Freda Lewis
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Mrs Kath Hardy
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No. 1
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Flags
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Guns
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Torps
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Midshipman Snotty
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engineer commander
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pilot
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Doc
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Sub
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sub-lieutenant R.N.V.R.
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Secco
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Brodie
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Able Seaman Joey Mackeridge
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Edgecombe
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Reynolds
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Parkinson
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Fisher
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Moran
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Coombe
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Able Seaman Hollett
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Posty
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coxswain
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Commander Spencer
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No. 1 'Tremoyne'
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Colonel Lumsden
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Captain Jasper Fry
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Bobby Kinross
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Lavinia Kinross
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Mrs Blake
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Mrs Lemmon
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Maureen Fenwick
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Mrs MacAdoo
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Mrs Farrell
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Nell Fosdick
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Emily
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barmaid
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Mona Duke
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Mr Blake
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Uncle Fred
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Albert Fosdick
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May Blake
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nurse
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photographer
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Mr Satterthwaite
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Freda's baby
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[young stoker]
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[.]
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[Albert Fosdick - replaced]
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Credits
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Direction:
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Directed by
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Directed by
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[Assistant Director (1st)]
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[Assistant Director (2nd)]
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[Assistant Director (3rd)]
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[Rehearsal Director]
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[Continuity]
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[Assistant Continuity]
Production:
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A Two Cities Film
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Presents
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Produced by
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Associate Producer
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Unit Manager
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Production Manager
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[Production Manager]
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[Location Manager]
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Made at
Casting:
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[Casting]
Writing:
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[Written] By
Photography:
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Photographed by
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Operating Cameraman
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[Camera Operator]
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[Focus Puller]
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[Clapper Loader]
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[Clapper Loader]
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[Clapper Loader]
Stills:
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[Stills]
Special Effects:
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Special Effects Cameraman
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Special Effects
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[Special Effects Production Manager]
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[Special Effects Camera Operator]
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[Special Effects Camera Assistant]
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[Special Effects Camera Assistant]
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[Model Assistant]
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[Model Assistant]
Editing:
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[Supervising Editor]
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Editor
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[Assistant Editor]
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[Assistant Editor]
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[Assistant Editor]
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[Assistant Editor]
Design:
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Art Supervisor to Noel Coward
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Art Director
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Associate Art Director
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[Assistant Art Director]
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[Assistant Art Director]
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[Assistant Art Director]
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[Assistant Art Director]
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[Art Department Assistant]
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Set Dressing
Costumes:
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Officers Uniforms
Make-up:
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Make Up
Music:
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Musical Score
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[Music Played] With
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Noel Coward's Musical Score Conducted by
Sound:
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Sound Recording
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[Sound Assistant]
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[Sound Assistant]
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[Sound Assistant]
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Sound System
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[Boom Operator]
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[Boom Operator]
Consultant:
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Naval Adviser
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Naval Adviser
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Naval Adviser
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Thanked in credits
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Thanked in credits
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Thanked in credits
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