WAR AT SEA FILM SEASON: Damn the Defiant! (1962) ~ HMS Defiant ALEC GUINNESS, DIRK BOGARDE, ANTHONY QUAYLE ~ is a British adventure CinemaScope and 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 Squar

HMS Defiant (1962) - Battle Scene 1 Reviewing the best historical war related movies and dramas on British & Commonwealth Forces... One of the best historical naval films I have seen--and perhaps the best one about this period in history. Exceptionally good acting and writing make this a definite must-see. The story itself is based very, very loosely upon various mutinies and strikes that occurred in 1797 aboard British war ships. In the film, crew members were pushed to do this desperate act du

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