Damn the Defiant
Damn the Defiant ★★★ HMS Defiant 1962
Adventure abounds when Guinness, as captain of the HMS Defiant during the Napoleonic wars, finds himself up against not only the French but his cruel second-in-command (Bogarde) and a mutinous crew as well. In the end, both a fleet-wide mutiny and a French invasion of England are avoided. Much attention is paid to period detail in this well-crafted film. 101m/C VHS, DVD . GB Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde, Maurice Denham, Anthony Quayle; D: Lewis Gilbert; W: Nigel Kneale, Edmund H. North; C: Christopher Challis; M: Clifton Parker.
More From encyclopedia.com
Norman French , NORMAN FRENCH. The variety of Old Northern FRENCH adopted in the 10c by the Normans, Norse settlers who gave their name to Normandy. It extended to E… Jacques Philippe Leclerc , Jacques Philippe Leclerc
The French general Jacques Philippe Leclerc (1902-1947) commanded the division which liberated Paris in 1944. He warned agai… C.s. Lewis , Literary historian, Christian apologist, scholar, critic, writer of science fiction and children's books; b. Belfast, Ireland, Nov. 29, 1898; d. the… Law French , A corrupt French dialect used by English lawyers from after the Norman Conquest in 1066 until slightly after the end of the Restoration period in 168… French , French
The establishment of the first permanent English settlement in North America at Jamestown in 1607 was immediately followed by the planting of… Dienbienphu , Dienbienphu or Dien Bien Phu (dyĕn´byĕn´fōō´), former French military base, N Vietnam, near the Laos border. It was the scene in 1954 of the last gre…
You Might Also Like
NEARBY TERMS
Damn the Defiant