H.M.S. Defiant

     

H.M.S. Defiant1962

H.M.S. Defiant (released as Damn the Defiant! in the United States) is a British naval war 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 … more »


Lieut. Scott-Padget:
What is your name?

Wagstaffe:
Wagstaffe. Percival Pallister Wagstaffe.

Lieut. Scott-Padget:
Wagstaffe? Are you by any chance related to Admiral Wagstaffe?

Wagstaffe:
Remotely, yes. He's a distant cousin.

Lieut. Scott-Padget:
But he would speak for you?

Wagstaffe:
Well, I'm quite sure that he...

Lieut. Scott-Padget:
Admiral Wagstaffe - how well do you know him?

Wagstaffe:
Intimately.

Lieut. Scott-Padget:
You visit his house?

Wagstaffe:
Oh, yes, often.

Lieut. Scott-Padget:
You claim that, do you? Do you also claim to be a mad-man? For to have constantly visited someone who does not exist?

Wagstaffe:
Not exist! Would I not know my own cousin?

Lieut. Scott-Padget:
I invented him a moment ago.

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