Editing In Which We Serve (section)

==Reception==
[[File:"In Which We Serve" Advertisement 1943.jpg|thumb|An advertisement for the film in a 1943 edition of the American magazine ''[[Look (American magazine)|Look]]'']]

===Box office===
The film was the second most popular movie at the British box office in 1943.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=xtGIAgAAQBAJ&q=hungry+hill+film+box+office&pg=PA209 Robert Murphy, ''Realism and Tinsel: Cinema and Society in Britain 1939–48'' 2003 p. 206]</ref> (According to ''Kinematograph Weekly'' the film was the most popular.<ref>{{cite book |page=231 |title=Blackout: reinventing women for wartime British cinema |last=Lant |first=Antonia |year=1991 |publisher=Princeton University Press }}</ref>)

The film was one of the most successful British films ever released in the US, earning [[USD|$]]1.8 million in rentals (${{Format price|{{Inflation|US|1800000|1947}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US}} dollars{{Inflation-fn|US}}).<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://archive.org/stream/variety165-1947-02#page/n197/mode/1up/search/cleo |title='Cleo' Figures $2,250,000 from U.S. Market |magazine=Variety |date=26 February 1947 |page=20 |access-date=26 March 2017}}</ref>

===Critics===
[[Bosley Crowther]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' observed, "There have been other pictures which have vividly and movingly conveyed in terms of human emotion the cruel realities of this present war. None has yet done it so sharply and so truly as ''In Which We Serve''...&nbsp;For the great thing which Mr. Coward has accomplished in this film is a full and complete expression of national fortitude&nbsp;... Yes, this is truly a picture in which the British may take a wholesome pride and we may regard as an excellent expression of British strength."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9E02E2D61E3AE43AA15757C2A9649D946393D6CF|title='In Which We Serve,' Depicting Cruel Realities of This War, Is Presented at Capitol. Noel Coward Heads Cast.|newspaper=The New York Times|date=24 December 1942 |last1=Crowther |first1=Bosley }}</ref>

''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' called the film "a grim tale sincerely picturized and splendidly acted throughout" and added, "Only one important factor calls for criticism. It is that all the details are too prolonged. The author-producer-scriptwriter-composer and co-director gives a fine performance as the captain of the vessel, but acting honors also go to the entire company. Stark realism is the keynote of the writing and depiction, with no glossing of the sacrifices constantly being made by the sailors."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/1941/film/reviews/in-which-we-serve-1200413872/ |title=''Variety'' review|date=January 1942 }}</ref>

===Naval response===
Despite largely positive reviews by audiences and critics alike, the film was not well received by some within the [[Admiralty (United Kingdom)|Admiralty]] who dubbed it "''In Which We Sink''".<ref name="Mountbatten">{{cite book|title=From Battenberg to Mountbatten|publisher=Barker |first=E. H.|last=Cookridge|year=1966|page=181}}</ref>

===Awards and nominations===
On Christmas Eve 1942 in New York the [[National Board of Review of Motion Pictures]] honoured the film as the [[National Board of Review Awards 1942|Best English Language Film of the Year]], citing [[Bernard Miles]] and [[John Mills]] for their performances.

The film was nominated in the 1943 [[Academy Awards]] for [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]] and [[Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay|Best Original Screenplay]] (losing out to ''[[Casablanca (film)|Casablanca]]'' and ''[[Princess O'Rourke]]'' respectively). However, Coward was presented with an [[Academy Honorary Award]] for "his outstanding production achievement."

''In Which We Serve'' also won the [[New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Film]] (beating ''[[Casablanca (film)|Casablanca]]'') and the [[Argentine Film Critics Association Awards|Argentine Film Critics Association Award for Best Foreign Film]] in 1943.