Who directed the 1951 British science fiction comedy film in which an American actor and decorated naval officer of World War II starred in?
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Douglas Elton Fairbanks Jr., KBE, DSC, (December 9, 1909 – May 7, 2000) was an American actor and a decorated naval officer of World War II.
H.M.S. Defiant H.M.S. Defiant (released as Damn the Defiant! in the United States) is a British adventure CinemaScope and 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.