This is a very good, though a tad predictable wartime film. This is because although more than half of the crew members are killed, you can pretty much expect that ONLY those you don't recognize will be the ones to "buy the farm". Noel Coward, John Mills and Richard Attenborough are among the crew, and as I said, you KNOW they will survive because they are big-time actors (though at this point, Mills and Attenborough were at the beginning of their film careers). This reminded me of the original Star Trek series--you knew Kirk, Scotty, McCoy and Spock were going to live but you could pretty much guarantee that one of the "red shirts" would be killed! In addition, though the film is much better than average compared to other WWII war films, I don't agree that it is THAT much better than average as SOME of the portrayals are clearly too good to be true because this was intended as propaganda. However, I was intrigued that Attenborough's character reacted cowardly at one point in the movie and this DID elevate this movie above the average war film because of added realism.
Review of In Which We Serve
