. . . . . . "H.M.S. Defiant (released as Damn the Defiant! in the United States) is a British adventure Technicolor film from 1962 starring Alec Guinness and Dirk Bogarde. It tells the story of a mutiny aboard the fictitious ship of the title at around the time of the Spithead Mutiny. It was directed by Lewis Gilbert, with a screenplay by Nigel Kneale from Frank Tilsley's novel Mutiny (1958). The film had its World Premiere at the Odeon Leicester Square in London's West End on 22 February 1962."@en . . . . "6060.0"^^ . . "0055884" . . . "1962-02-22Z"^^ . . "H.M.S. Defiant"@en . .