These early works by Lean involve a collaboration with playwright Noël Coward and an adaptation of one of his plays. New prints!

Lean’s directorial debut and one of the most revered films in British film history, In Which We Serve was produced to boost England’s morale during WWII. Codirected, written by, and starring Noël Coward, it tells the history of HMS Torrin and her crew through flashback after the destroyer is sunk by Luftwaffe bombers. (114 mins., 35mm)

This Happy Breed tells the story of a middle-class suburban London family in the years between World War I and the outbreak of World War II. Adapted from a play by Noël Coward. (110 mins., 35mm)

This Happy Breed begins at 9:05 PM.