Dad – How many Soldiers did you kill today?

Could the film be ‘Attack on the Iron Coast’?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxyyDKCgULs&feature=PlayList&p=F137FE31B12E4352&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=108

I’ll go for “In Which we Serve” (this can get pretty expensive)…

It probably wasn’t ‘In Which We Serve’ as that doesn’t feature a climactic end mission…..I thought of it because it does feature a captain and conversations with his son.

There was another (fairly low budget) film featuring a St Nazaire type of raid but it was not black-and-white.

I seem to remember that in that film some men were killed in training as the commanding officer was pushing them too hard. Sounds a bit clichéd…..so that’s probably where a script-writer would have had his son ask ‘how many soldiers he had killed that day’!

Nope! It was not “The Gift Horse”. I’ve just seen it, it was pretty entertaining; a lot of it reminded me of “The Cruel Sea” which is far better though.

The film I’m thinking of was probably produced in the fiftees or sixtees. I think it might be too dramatic to be a wartime production, but I might be mistaken. It was in black-and-white. I’ll go for “In Which we Serve” (this can get pretty expensive) but otherwise I haven’t got a clue.

If my memory serves me well, it was a true war drama, but it must have had a “U” or maybe an “A” certificate as I saw it as a small boy. I don’t rmember much but I remember the scene where the skipper(?) of the ship was asked by his son when he came home how many soldiers he had killed that day. I think the son was called Timmy. The ship was most likely sent on a suicide mission and rammed a harbour. I think the skipper died during this mission.

Any more ideas?

Peter

After doing a little googling and thanks to Creaking Door I think it was this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift_Horse_(film)

I’ll see if I can find it on dvd.

Peter

‘In Which We Serve’ / ‘The Gift Horse’?

Brit film or US?

Or, it wasn’t the comedy “What did you do in the War daddy” was it?