--- title: 'H.M.S. Defiant (1962)' type: 'film' director: 'Lewis Gilbert' released: '1962-01-01' runtime_minutes: 100 genres: - 'Adventure' countries: - 'United Kingdom' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/hms-defiant-1962' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055884/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # H.M.S. Defiant (1962) 1962 · 100 min · Adventure · United Kingdom ## Synopsis H.M.S. Defiant is a 1962 British naval war film directed by Lewis Gilbert with a screenplay by Nigel Kneale from Frank Tilsley's 1958 novel Mutiny, and starring Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde, Anthony Quayle, Maurice Denham, and Nigel Stock. Shot in both CinemaScope and Technicolor, the plot concerns a mutiny aboard the fictitious title ship at around the time of the Spithead mutiny in 1797. ## Credits - **Director:** [Lewis Gilbert](https://cinepixo.com/people/lewis-gilbert) - **Screenplay:** [Nigel Kneale](https://cinepixo.com/people/nigel-kneale), [Edmund H. North](https://cinepixo.com/people/edmund-h-north) - **Original Music Composer:** [Clifton Parker](https://cinepixo.com/people/clifton-parker) - **Producer:** [John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-knatchbull-7th-baron-brabourne) - **Director of Photography:** [Christopher Challis](https://cinepixo.com/people/christopher-challis) - **Editor:** [Peter R. Hunt](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-r-hunt) ## Cast - [Tom Bell](https://cinepixo.com/people/tom-bell) - [Maurice Denham](https://cinepixo.com/people/maurice-denham) - [Alec Guinness](https://cinepixo.com/people/alec-guinness) - [Dirk Bogarde](https://cinepixo.com/people/dirk-bogarde) - [Anthony Quayle](https://cinepixo.com/people/anthony-quayle) - [Murray Melvin](https://cinepixo.com/people/murray-melvin) - [Nigel Stock](https://cinepixo.com/people/nigel-stock) - [Richard Carpenter](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-carpenter) - [Victor Maddern](https://cinepixo.com/people/victor-maddern) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/hms-defiant-1962 Film facts: Wikidata (Q1697051); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.