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H.M.S. Defiant is a British film of genre Drama directed by Lewis Gilbert with Alec Guinness

H.M.S. Defiant (1962)

H.M.S. Defiant
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Length 1h41
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Genres Drama,    War,    Action,    Adventure,    Historical
Rating70% 3.543723.543723.543723.543723.54372

H.M.S. Defiant (released as Damn the Defiant! in the United States) is a British adventure Technicolor film from 1962 starring Alec Guinness and Dirk Bogarde. It tells the story of a mutiny aboard the fictitious ship of the title at around the time of the Spithead Mutiny. It was directed by Lewis Gilbert, with a screenplay by Nigel Kneale from Frank Tilsley's novel Mutiny (1958). The film had its World Premiere at the Odeon Leicester Square in London's West End on 22 February 1962.

Synopsis

The humane Captain Crawford (Guinness) is in command of the warship HMS Defiant during the French Revolutionary Wars. He soon finds himself in a battle of wills with his first officer, the sadistic and supercilious first lieutenant, Mr. Scott-Padget (Bogarde). The Lieutenant believes that Crawford is too soft on his crew, and also disagrees with the captain's decision to proceed with orders to sail to Corsica despite word that Napoleon has overrun much of Italy. Scott-Padget has powerful family connections, which he has used in the past to "beach" two previous commanding officers with whom he disagreed. Knowing that Crawford is helpless to intervene, Scott-Padget subjects the former's son, Midshipman Harvey Crawford (David Robinson), to excessive daily punishments so as to gain leverage over the captain.

Actors

Alec Guinness

(Captain Crawford)Dirk Bogarde

(Lieut. Scott-Padget)Anthony Quayle

(Vizard)Maurice Denham

(Mr. Goss (Ship's Surgeon))Nigel Stock

(Senior Midshipman Kilpatrick)
And :
Richard Carpenter
Tom Bell
Murray Melvin
Robin Stewart
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