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That Hamilton Woman (1941,
UK)
In Alexander Korda's historical epic:
- the scenes of the passionate, romantic, but tragic
and forbidden love affair between British naval commander Lord
Admiral Horatio Nelson (Laurence Olivier) and the beautiful Lady
Emma Hamilton (Vivien Leigh) (Olivier and Leigh, both with recent
divorces that allowed them to marry in 1940, were a newlywed couple
at their most romantic time together when the film was made)
- Nelson's memorable speech about how the English had
always fought tyrants and dictators
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