While guinness takes on the role of the compassionatecaptain, bogarde plays the secondincommand who ends up being killed by his men after a. Damn the defiant is a reasonably welldone motion picture about a british frigate. Alec guinness dirk bogarde maurice denham 1962 the 18thcentury captain alec guinness of the h. Stanley milgrams obedience to authority experiments core. Find out when and where you can watch damn the defiant. Since its theatrical run in 1962, hardly anyone had ever seen it in widescreen, and the movie never made it to laserdisc.
Defiant, us poster art, alec guinness left, dirk bogarde right, 1962. Battles on the high sea lead to the incapacitation of crawford and to usurpation. North based on the novel mutiny by frank tilsley role. Music from the original 1962 motion picture soundtrack. In his study of the british film industry, a mirror for england faber and faber, 1971, raymond durgnat notes that the true story of the 1789 mutiny on the h. Alec guinness must battle a mutinous crew and napoleons fleet in the rousing, historical adventure damn the defiant. Visitors of subtitlesbank have given a rating of 7. North and nigel kneale that doesnt fall into the silliphant or carl foreman trap of. Defiant, the humane crawford guinness strives to maintain order throughout the ship against the ceaseless brutality of sadistic first mate scottpadget dirk bogarde.
Defiant full movie in hd visit defiant s crew is part of a fleetwide movement to present a petition of g. Defiant finds the mate dirk bogarde has driven the men to mutiny. Damn the defiant is a reasonably welldone motion picture about a british frigate deployed in the mediterranean during the napoleanic war. Tom geoffrey lodge thesis submitted for the degree of.
The freelance career began with dirk playing the sadistic lt scottpadget opposite alec guinness as the patient ships captain. Unrated the commander alec guinness of a british warship must battle napoleons fleet. Subtitles of different languages may be downloaded for free as a. With alec guinness, dirk bogarde, maurice denham, nigel stock. The ship is led by captain crawford alec guinness, a fair man who is afraid to rattle the cage of his next in command, the sadistic lieutenant scottpadget dirk bogarde. Original trailer mutiny threatens his majestys warship during the war against napoleon in damn the defiant. Dthdf1962 scanner internet archive html5 uploader 1. Cause they dont know the person and they dont give a damn. It profits from an intelligent, insightful screenplay by edmund h. The conflict of wills between crawford and scottpadget. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing damn the defiant. The continual sadism of the defiant s first officer makes this difficult, and when the captain is disabled, the chance for violence increases.
The warship hms defiant is under the able leadership of captain crawford during its battles with napoleon and his french navy. It was also shot in cinemascope, which means that the dvd is a major revelation. Download the tv guide app for iphone, ipad and android. Provided to youtube by the orchard enterprises damn the defiant. The continual sadism of defiant s first officer makes this difficult, and when the captain is disabled, the chance for violence increases. Floridas electoral college voters pledged to vote for thurmond in defiance of the electorate in. What the captain does not know is that a fleetwide mutiny is underway and that his crew is planning to take over the defiant before it reaches corsica. Bounty was never filmed in england but was filmed twice in america, in 1935 and 1962. Italia latinoamerica magyarorszag nederland new zealand norge. Defiant is a british naval war cinemascope and technicolor film from 1962 starring alec. It is primarily a great study of alec guinness in his preobi wan days, as the steady yet intimidated captain crawford of hms defiant, whose control over his ship is under the sway of his disobedient second officer, played by the seldom seen dirk bogarde as. This curious transformation of a poignant tragedy into a happy solution points to another characteristic of tragedy in transition. The continual sadism of defiant s first officer makes this difficult, and when the captain is. It tells the story of a mutiny aboard the fictitious ship of the title at around the time of the spithead mutiny.
This account has reached the download cap, additional downloads subject to. For if an intensification of tragedys horror and violence can be seen to produce a kind of intertextual tragic fall, the loss of tragedy can also become, more paradoxically, a source of tragedy. Instead, there were both obedient and defiant outcomes. One of his last performances was a character part in the spielbergproduced young sherlock holmes 1986. It was directed by lewis gilbert, with a screenplay by nigel kneale from frank tilsleys novel mutiny 1958. If one of these damn white mississippi crackers touches me, im gonna knock the. In films since 1938s lancashire luck, stock appeared in such major british releases as brighton rock 1946, the dam busters 1955 damn the defiant 1962 and cromwell 1969. Alec guinness stars in this british sea adventure set during the napoleonic wars as capt. Upon finishing this movie, both returned to lawrence of arabia 1962.
After the allies victory over nazi germany and fascist italy in. Crawfords ambitious first mate has thoughts of mutiny when his own counsel is overlooked. Defiant, during the french revolutionary war, fair captain crawford is locked in a battle of wills against his cruel secondincommand lieutenant scottpadget, whose heavyhanded command style pushes the crew to mutiny. Sir alec guinness and sir anthony quayle made this movie during the two month break in the shooting of lawrence of arabia 1962, when the production moved from jordan to spain. Defiant s crew is part of a fleetwide movement to present a petition of grievances to the admiralty. It is primarily a great study of alec guinness in his preobi wan days, as the steady yet intimidated captain crawford of hms defiant, whose control over his ship is under the sway of his disobedient second. As a british naval pic id place it below master and commander and hornblower and quite a ways above any of the bountys. Defiant is warned that his second in command, lieutenant scottpadget, is a brutal sadist who has connections with the admiralty. These are the damned 1962 fantasy, horror, macdonald carey, shirley anne field, viveca lindfors. Defiant, during the french revolutionary war, fair. I remember very well going to see this film when it was released in 1962 and.
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