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November 1935
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Midshipman Easy is a 1935 British adventure film directed by Carol Reed and starring Hughie Green, Margaret Lockwood and Harry Tate. The screenplay concerns a young man who runs away from home, joins the navy and goes to sea in the 1790s. He rescues a captive woman from a Spanish ship and battles pirates and smugglers. The film was based on the novel Mr Midshipman Easy (1836) by Frederick Marryat.
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The precocious Master Easy joins the Royal Navy aboard HMS Harpy as a midshipman.
His lofty attitude and difficulty in adjusting to Navy discipline soon gets the young man into trouble.
Unrepentant, he and his young officer friends set about rescuing a girl and her family from Spanish bandits.
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