Screenplay:
Nigel Kneale & Edmund H. North (based on the novel
‘Mutiny’ by Frank Tilsley)
Role:
Lieutenant Scott-Padget
HMS
Defiant (1961) The freelance career began with Dirk playing the sadistic Lt Scott-Padget opposite Alec Guinness as the patient ship's captain. A splendid exercise in sadism masked by surface charm.
