H.M.S. Defiant
| H.M.S. Defiant | |
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Original UK film poster | |
| Directed by | Lewis Gilbert |
| Screenplay by | |
| Based on | Mutiny 1958 novel by Frank Tilsley |
| Produced by | John Brabourne |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Christopher Challis |
| Edited by | Peter R. Hunt |
| Music by | Clifton Parker |
Production company | G.W. Films Ltd |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 101 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2 million |
H.M.S. Defiant (released as Damn the Defiant! in the United States) 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.