I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Wonderfully offbeat film!

A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Very beautiful Vivien Leigh is perfectly cast as very beautiful Emma Hamilton, and her performance is one of her very best. Laurence Olivier is very good as Horatio Nelson, although I think that Lesley Howard might have been even better. The movie's chief failing is not showing the love and respect both Emma and Horatio felt for Sir William Hamilton, who was their constant companion while he lived. I suppose that wasn't possible in 1941 under the code. 9/10

I was interested in seeing this movie as one that Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier made together during their 20-year marriage. To me, it seemed like their characters might not mesh on screen. It seemed hard to imagine Leigh's 'Fiddle-dee-dee' Scarlett O'Hara from Gone (1937) with the Wind playing opposite Olivier's aloof 'Maxim' de Winter from Rebecca (1940) or Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights (1939). Nevertheless, the story and characters of this movie soon captivated me, and I was able to forget their different character types.--------------------------------"That Hamilton Woman was the favorite film of Britian's great wartime prime minister, Winston Churchill. Churchill's introduction to the movie began even before production started. Churchill had cabled Korda the day following the announcement that a film about Lord Nelson was to be made; Churchill suggested the title for the film. England was enmeshed in WWII when That Hamilton Woman was made. ..Korda had journeyed to the U.S. where film making facilities were more readily available that in his war-torn adopted country, England, Hungarian-born Korda got the idea for the picture during a train trip from New York to Hollywwod as he whiled away the travel time reading a book on naval history by Adm. A Slatterly, penniless, drunken old crone--played by Leigh is consigned to the lockup on charges of thievery and assault. There, she relates the story of the life to a young streetwalker cellmate played by the inappropriately named Angel. The tale unfolds in flashback..."-------------------------------In the late 18th Century, the loose Emma (Lyon) Hart (Vivien Leigh) and her mother, Mrs. Cadogan-Lyon (Sara Allgood), are sent to Naples to await the arrival of Emma's future husband Charles Francis Greville. Once there, they learn that Charles' uncle, Sir William Hamilton (Alan Mowbray), the British Ambassador to Naples, has basically bought her by paying off Charles' debts and assuming his assets. In the bargain between nephew and uncle, Emma is considered as one of his assets. Having nowhere else to turn, Emma and her mother settle for living in the lap of luxury in Naples, learning French and Italian, and becoming a favorite of the Naples' queen. In a sham marriage Emma becomes Lady Hamilton, just another work of art, a 'trophy wife,' to Sir Hamilton. During the Napoleonic Wars that ravaged most of Europe at the time, Britain's Admiral Horatio Nelson (Laurence Olivier) and his navy seem to be the only thing keeping Napoleon from conquering Great Britain and guarding its crucial sea-lanes. When Nelson and his fleet come to Naples, the Hamiltons entertain him, and Nelson and Lady Hamilton soon fall in love. Though their love affair is known and talked about throughout Europe, neither Lady Nelson (Gladys Cooper) nor Sir Hamilton are able to stop it. In fact, though Lady Hamilton and Lord Nelson live together in the end, Lady Nelson refuses to drag the Nelson name through England's divorce courts, and Emma openly confronts her husband about their sham marriage. Sir William has no power to keep her to himself because Nelson had, by this time, become a highly decorated national hero. The three, Lord and Lady Hamilton, and Nelson live together in London as a 'menage a trois' until Lord Hamilton's death. After retiring from the British Navy, Nelson becomes a Lord and enters the House of Lords. There, he steadfastly speaks out against signing any peace agreement between Great Britain and France until Napoleon is completely defeated. His warnings turn out to be prophetic when a combined France and Spanish fleet, tries to cross the English Channel to conquer England. In the Battle of Trafalgar, the British fleet rebuffs the fleet of the French and Spanish. However, Lord Nelson is fatally wounded in the battle, leaving Emma Hamilton and their daughter to fend for themselves without the benefit of Nelson's money or clout. When this movie was released, it was a propaganda film to bolster the moral of British soldiers and the English people during the German bombings of London. However, it still holds up as a very good film, an interesting story, and a fairly accurate depiction in British history. This movie should be restored if it hasn't been yet.

Vivien Leigh (Lady Hamilton) is caught shoplifting and put in a cell where she recounts her life story to Heather Angel. It's a story that reveals her to be the ex-mistress of Laurence Olivier (Lord Nelson) and ex-wife of Alan Mowbray (Lord Hamilton) and it details her romance with the English naval hero up until his death at the 'Battle of Trafalgar'.The film is long but this doesn't seem to matter as the story captures the audience from the beginning. The cast are all good and, apart from the leads of Leigh and Olivier, mentions must go to Alan Mowbray who ends up as an hallucinating wreck and, in particular, Gladys Cooper (Lady Nelson) who holds her dignity and whose every scene is filled with tension.There are some powerful scenes, eg, Vivien Leigh receiving the news of her lover's death, and the film gives you a bit of everything - romance, humour, drama and good actors. It ends rather suddenly - it would have been interesting to know what happens next and what happens to the child - but the story doesn't take things that far. To her, Lady Hamilton's life ends at the battle of Trafalgar.

This is one of my favorite historic epic/romantic films. It stars Lawrence Olivier as Lord Nelson and Vivien Leigh as Emma Hart Hamilton, with Vivien Leigh fresh from her triumph in "Gone with the Wind" and at a time when the real-life romance and marriage between the two stars (Leigh and Olivier) was new.The film is largely accurate, which is unusual for an historical drama of its time since these usually took great license with the truth. The departures from the truth that the film took were largely to satisfy the censors of the time. The truth is that William Hamilton, Emma's older husband, accepted and even encouraged the affair between his wife and Lord Nelson. When Emma set up housekeeping with Lord Nelson in England, William Hamilton lived there with them in a menage a trois relationship that fascinated the public of the time. In 1941 this would have been unacceptable on the screen.The implication of the film is that Emma's daughter by Lord Nelson died. In fact their daughter married a man of the cloth, had ten children, and died at the age of 80. Emma's end as it is portrayed in the film is sadly accurate. Women of Emma's time were largely dependent upon their station in life and upon the whims of the men in their lives. If those men died, even if the man was great, women often found themselves in desperate poverty.