Midshipman Easy

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.

Plot

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.