Top billed cast

1. 

   Noël Coward

   Captain E. V. Kinross R.N. / Captain 'D'

2. 

   John Mills

   Ordinary Seaman Blake / Shorty Blake

3. 

   Bernard Miles

   Chief Petty Officer Hardy / Walter Hardy

4. 

   Celia Johnson

   Mrs. Kinross / Alix

5. 

   Kay Walsh

   Freda Lewis / Freda

6. 

   Joyce Carey

   Mrs. Hardy / Kath

7. 

   Derek Elphinstone

   No. 1

8. 

   Michael Wilding

   Flags

9. 

   Robert Sansom

   Guns

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-06-26

A film that continues to divide opinion even now as it recounts the exploits of HMS "Torrin" a Royal Navy destroyer during WWII. I have to say that I found this to be just a little too much of a propaganda instrument than I was comfortable with - but it was made during the war, and it is very easy to be sitting now judging the activities of those who were actually risking their lives on an hourly basis, and of those charged with maintaining morale. Noël Coward heads this up as an almost aristocratic and really rather wooden "Captain Kinross" but the ensemble cast - John Mills, Bernard Miles, ...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$250,000.00

Revenue
$4,450,000.00

Keywords

• bravery
• world war ii
• bomber
• based on true story
• crew
• crete
• royal navy
• harbor
• black and white
• sailor
• battleship
• lifeboat
• destroyer
• sea battle
• naval warfare
• dunkirk
• naval battle
• britannia