Noel Coward’s highly regarded war film hasn’t aged that well, in my opinion at least lots of stiff upper lips and cheerful cockneys. In that respect it’s like Cavalcade, concentrating on an upstairs and downstairs couple – also like that it has the advantage of dealing with sadness, death and defeat and the sinking of a famous boat, and ends with a famous speech. Ronald Colman plays the Coward part – it seems to mean less with him doing it than Coward, even though he’s well cast. Edna Best, who co-starred with Coward in The Constant Nymph on stage, also features.
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