HMS Defiant
Time Out says
This late 19th century seafaring saga has some impressive credentials: a strong cast, a script by Nigel Kneale and Edmund H North (the latter did the adaptation for Ray's In a Lonely Place and co-wrote Patton), beautiful CinemaScope photography by Christopher Challis, crisp editing by Peter Hunt (later to become a Bond stalwart), and superb design by Arthur Lawson. It was nothing special in 1962, but today seems rather cherishable, and to make it now would cost rather more than $40 million. As an evocation of class conflicts among the officers and bitter resentments among the press-ganged crew, the movie is tense and convincingly acted, with the traditional Mutiny on the Bounty roles reversed: Captain Guinness is the humanitarian, and First Lieutenant Bogarde is the unrepentant cat-lover.
Details
Release details
Duration:
101 mins
Cast and crew
Director:
Lewis Gilbert
Screenwriter:
Nigel Kneale, Edmund H North
Cast:
Alec Guinness
Dirk Bogarde
Anthony Quayle
Tom Bell
Nigel Stock
Murray Melvin
Victor Maddern
Maurice Denham
Bryan Pringle
Dirk Bogarde
Anthony Quayle
Tom Bell
Nigel Stock
Murray Melvin
Victor Maddern
Maurice Denham
Bryan Pringle
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