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I saw this movie in the theater when I was 15 years old. I was so thoroughly entertained by this marvelous adaption I can still remember my reactions and actions of that day. Robert Ryan was so aptly cast as Klaggert he almost sole the show hadn't it been for the exemplary performances of nearly the entire cast. To see Melvyn Douglas' performance in this film is pure heaven. I can't sing higher praises for every single participant. You can smell the sea air when you hear the gulls and see the sails willowing in the wind, and you feel like your aboard ship as it rocks under the superb cinematography of those involved here. It even captures history the way "The Devil's Disciple" conjured up a period just a few decades earlier. Anyone who loves Western History will be enthralled with this splice of Napoleonic Days aboard an English Ship of War. It trumps even the more cinemagraphic Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, because of its highly literate script, not to undervalue the high quality of that film, too.