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Stand By for Action (M.G.M.), the story of a U.S. destroyer, is a Hollywood counterpart of Noel Coward's In Which We Serve (TIME, Dec. 28). As such it brilliantly exhibits Hollywood's limitations. Its action is fully as exciting, its battle scenes even more spectacular than those in In Which We Serve. The only thing it lacks is real people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 4, 1943 | 1/4/1943 | See Source »

...Which We Serve (Noel Coward, Bernard Miles, John Mills, Celia Johnson; TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 4, 1943 | 1/4/1943 | See Source »

...picture was written, produced, directed and acted by Noel Coward. The Royal Navy helped in its making, saw that naval details were correct down to the last pompom. Its hero is widely supposed, though Coward has denied it, to be Coward's friend Lord Louis Mountbatten, who commanded and lost a destroyer (H.M.S. Kelly) before he became Commando-in-Chief. Coward plays the part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 28, 1942 | 12/28/1942 | See Source »

...story starts at the end instead of the beginning, with a superbly realistic sea battle near Crete. Captain Edward Kinross (Coward) and his flotilla send a Nazi convoy to the bottom well aware that they will probably soon follow their victims. Says Coward, drinking cocoa after the battle, to his signal officer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 28, 1942 | 12/28/1942 | See Source »

Cinemoralist Will Hays decided an expunging job was in order on Noel Coward's cinebiography of a British destroyer, In Which We Serve-a show London has been enjoying unexpunged for ten weeks now. Producers of the cinema cried protest; both sides were reported marshaling their attorneys for a moral war. In the film are some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 7, 1942 | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

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