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Alec Guinness gives a great performance as an humanitarian captain during a very interesting period of history. This 1962 movie shows undoubtedly a good achievement in visuals, even according to present standards, despite the deficiency (or absence) of FX.
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An excellent film about the British Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, which shows great details of life on an 18th century war ship. This war drama has great acting by all, particularly Alec Guinness and Dirk Bogarde, with fine dialog and well-staged naval battles. The 2.35:1 widescreen DVD (CinemaScope) is enhanced for 16:9 TVs and of high quality.
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I purchased this on a friends recommendation who seemed to have similiar likes in other movies. Alec Guinnes is great. My wife and I were expecting something along the lines of Horatio HornBlower. Horatio it wasn't.
Ok to watch once however it will gather some dust in our library before its next viewing.
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This salty, sadly overlooked British entry fires on all cylinders. Lewis Gilbert (who'd go on to direct the original "Alfie" and three Bond entries) displays a sure hand here, with two first-class actors (Guinness and a deliciously hateful Bogarde) crossing verbal swords with gusto, while the always reliable Anthony Quayle organizes the men below. The denouement is worth waiting for, with stunning color footage recreating these beautiful ships in full battle mode. As period war movies go, you'll find this "Defiant" ship-shape indeed.
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The anguishing position of being the captain's son in an English ship during the Napoleonic wars is certainly no mean thing. Especially if your foe happens to be the ship's second in command,an envious and evil minded officer, marvelously played by Dirk Bogarde.
The film is certainly a first rate period classic of its kind. The life aboard an English Warship of the early Nineteenth Century is masterfully portrayed, and the drama lived on board is extremely disquieting to the viewer.
Alec Guiness, (the ship's captain) plays a good quiet and fair gentleman, knowledgeable of his trade and in anguish at not being able to protect his son from his devious second in command, untill he devises a plan..
A very interesting an moving experience.
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