Rating: NR
Genre:
Drama
Release Date: 10/10/2000
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol/Por/KO/TH
Dubbed: English
Sound: 1
Run Time: 101 Minutes
Flags: Suitable for Children
Distributor/Studio: Columbia TriStar
Damn the Defiant! is an 18th-century seafaring drama from director
Lewis Gilbert.
Alec Guinness plays the stern but compassionate captain of a British warship, engaged in the Napoleonic wars.
Guinness is popular with his men, which is more than can be said for his new second-in-command
Dirk Bogarde. When
Guinness tries to modify
Bogarde's sadistic adherence to discipline,
Bogarde responds by mistreating
Guinness' cabin-boy son, knowing that the captain cannot intervene under the edicts of British maritime law. During an incipient mutiny,
Bogarde is accidently killed, and
Guinness knows that the crewmen responsible must hang once they reach shore. But after these same men perform courageously in battle,
Guinness suffers a crisis of conscience: How can he condemn these fearlessly patriotic men to death, as he knows he must? Based on the novel
Mutiny by
Frank Tilsley.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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