High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! H.M.S. Defiant is a British film released in 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 the novel Mutiny by Frank Tilsley. The movie was released as Damn the Defiant! in the United States.