HMS Defiant Limited Edition Blu-Ray

Alec Guinness (Kind Hearts and Coronets) and Dirk Bogarde (The Gentle Gunman) lead the star-studded cast in H.M.S. Defiant, a thrilling tale of mutiny on the high seas from the great British action director Lewis Gilbert (Sink the Bismarck!, The Spy Who Loved Me).

During the French Revolutionary Wars, Crawford (Guinness), captain of the Defiant, finds himself in a battle of wills with his sadistic first officer Scott-Padget (Bogarde). When Crawford is wounded in battle with French forces, Scott-Padget takes command, but the crew begins to rebel against his brutal leadership, while remaining loyal to Crawford and their country.

H.M.S. Defiant – originally released in the US under the title Damn the Defiant! – is a film adaptation of Frank Tilsley's best-selling novel Mutiny, made by Edmund H North (The Day the Earth Stood Still) and Nigel Kneale (The Quatermass Experiment), and depicts the harsh reality of maritime life without embellishment.