Aug 10th

H.M.S. Defiant**                                                  
aka: Damn the Defiant!
GB 1962. Columbia/GW.108m. Cinemascope

Mutiny on board a British Navy warship is superceded by the threat of invasion from the French.
Serviceable but not memorable Napoleonic wars navy yarn, movingly played but slow in parts, and losing its chief adversary just when things are getting interesting.

Written by: Edmund H.North, Nigel Kneale, based on the novel "Mutiny" by Frank Tilsley.
Producer: John Brabourne.
Director: Lewis Gilbert.
Starring: Alec Guinness, Dick Bogarde, Anthony Quayle, Tom Bell, Nigel Stock, Murray Melvin, Maurice Denham, Joy Shelton, David Robinson, Andre Maranne.
Photography: Christopher Challis.
Music: Clifton Parker.

Preceded by:
Tom & Jerry in

His Mouse Friday**

(US 1951. 7m; w, d: William Hanna, Joseph Barbera; p: Fred Quimby.)