H.M.S. Defiant (1962)

Directed by

Lewis Gilbert

Genre

adventure film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 40m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 61 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 1797, a British naval captain tries to maintain order on his ship while a cruel lieutenant pushes the crew toward rebellion. The movie follows the growing conflict between duty and justice at sea.

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What happens

H.M.S. Defiant (released as Damn the Defiant! in the United States) is a 1962 British naval war film directed by Lewis Gilbert with a screenplay by Nigel Kneale from Frank Tilsley's 1958 novel Mutiny, and starring Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde, Anthony Quayle, Maurice Denham, and Nigel Stock. Shot in both CinemaScope and Technicolor, the plot concerns a mutiny aboard the fictitious title ship at around the time of the Spithead mutiny in 1797. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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