"IN WHICH WE SERVE"
Sir,-May 1 express my regret that G.M. should have ended his otherwise excellent review of Noel Coward’s In Which We Serve by complaining that Captain Kinross said "that the men who went down with the Torrin were luckier than those who survived because they now sleep beside her (or something to that effect)"? The words actually used were quite definitely not to that effect; what Kinross said, as far as I recall, was "If they had to die, what a grand way to go... for they’re in very good company. ... We've lost her (Torrin) but they’re still with her.". I feel fairly sure that G.M. will agree that this does not mean that the dead are luckier than the living; and that to object to the final speech of the film on that ground is not justified hu the eneech itself.
J.G.A.
P.
(Christchurch).
(G.M. replies: Thanks for the correction, but even in its corrected form it was still, I think, a falsely sentimental speech. That is what I was being mildly critical of; that and the equally sentimental estion, made in several places, that the p was more valuable than the men who served her. As I said in my review, "Flesh and blood count for more in In Which We Serve than steel and wood"’-and I suspect they also count for more in the real Navy.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 250, 6 April 1944, Page 18
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