Director:
Lewis Gilbert
see also:
The Sea Shall Not Have Them
Cast A Dark Shadow
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 shipÁs captain. A splendid exercise in sadism masked by surface charm.
