By Craig Kennedy - March 13th, 2013; 12:01 am
In Which We Serve (1942) Written and directed by Noel Coward. Michael Wilding as Flags and Noel Coward as Captain E. V. Kinross R.N.
Capt. Kinross: Here comes the dawn of a new day, Flags. I shouldn’t be surprised if it were a fairly uncomfortable one.
Flags: Yes, sir. Very pretty sky, sir. Somebody sent me a calendar rather like that last Christmas.
Capt. Kinross: Did it have a squadron of Dorniers in the upper right hand corner?
Flags: No, sir.
Capt. Kinross: That’s where art parts company with reality.
Filed under: Movie Quote of the Day
The film is an acknowledged classic, and it’s certainly well-made and stirring, but it’s also well known as one of the most noted of propaganda films, and hence caught in a time vacuum.
It’s pretty corny, but taken in context it goes down well.