"Propaganda with 'a very thick coating of sugar' was how Alexander Korda described his quasi-historical film about Lord Nelson and his adulterous affair with the bewitching Lady Hamilton. The evident analogy between Britain alone against Napoleon and Britain alone against Hitler helped make it Churchill's favorite film - but it's the exquisite Vivien Leigh, so lively and sympathetic as Emma, who carries the film, and Laurence Olivier's less lively Nelson. Shooting to a tight schedule, Korda managed to create a stylish and convincing ambience." --National Film Theatre of London program note