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Vortex · 07-22-10, 04:15 PM

I was doing some downloading and Google'ing for a list of navy movies, and came up with this topic high in the results. The thread was helpful and I am already a member here, so I thought I would necro it and write a few more entries myself.

- ***1/2 Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951)

w/Gregory Peck. A really well produced major film that I thought captured the original personality of Forrester's Hornblower much better than the modern TV series did.

- *** In Which We Serve (1942)

w/Noel Coward. Most reviewers give this film a higher rating than I do, but I found the shoreside melodramas to be somewhat tiresome. And the British effeteness of Noel Coward with its underlying message of class superiority - as an American - rubbed me the wrong way as well. But overall, a pretty good navy movie.

- ***1/2 Action in the North Atlantic (1943) and *** San Demetrio London (1943)

Both somewhat similar stories of merchant crews going up against the submarine threat in the Atlantic. I give the edge to Bogart and AitNA, but San Demetrio is a good film too. And I bet most Americans have never even heard of it.

07-22-10, 04:15 PM	#32
Vortex Swabbie Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 7 Downloads: 41 Uploads: 0	I was doing some downloading and Google'ing for a list of navy movies, and came up with this topic high in the results. The thread was helpful and I am already a member here, so I thought I would necro it and write a few more entries myself. - 1/2 Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951)* w/Gregory Peck. A really well produced major film that I thought captured the original personality of Forrester's Hornblower much better than the modern TV series did. - * In Which We Serve (1942) w/Noel Coward. Most reviewers give this film a higher rating than I do, but I found the shoreside melodramas to be somewhat tiresome. And the British effeteness of Noel Coward with its underlying message of class superiority - as an American - rubbed me the wrong way as well. But overall, a pretty good navy movie. - *1/2 Action in the North Atlantic (1943) and * San Demetrio London (1943)** Both somewhat similar stories of merchant crews going up against the submarine threat in the Atlantic. I give the edge to Bogart and AitNA, but San Demetrio is a good film too. And I bet most Americans have never even heard of it.