Good Sub Movies

Originally Posted by krashkart

I've only watched one older submarine movie so far, and it was Operation Bikini. It might have been better without the singing.


Sort of related; there is a classic movie showing this week called In Which We Serve. Looks like it might be worth a watch. Has anybody seen it?

In Which We Serve was loosely based on the destroyer service, in the "K" Class HMS Kelly, of then Captain Lord Louis Mountbatten, cousin of the King and post-war last Viceroy of India. At the time the movie was made Mountbatten was Commander, Combined Operations. It is doubtful anybody moved up the chain of command as fast as Lord Louis, a junior Captain (D) in 1939 and Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia in 1945. Mountbatten had a huge ego and was often on the set to ensure that everybody knew that the movie reflected his early war career.

Author and the movie's star Noel Coward was a good bud of Lord Louis and between the two of them they cranked out this classic piece of propaganda in early 1942, a time when things did not look too good for the Allies although with America now in the war, the future was brighter than the previous year. If wartime propaganda flicks or the Royal Navy is your thing, In Which We Serve is probably worth a look.