Tyrant of the Sea Tyrant of the Sea Tyrant of the Sea is a 1950 American historical war film directed by Lew Landers and starring Ron Randell, Rhys Williams and Lester Matthews. It is set during the Napoleonic Wars, with Admiral Horatio Nelson appearing as a character. The film began as a project "The Return of Captain Bligh" and was to star Charles Laughton, who had famously played Captain Bligh in "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1935). However Laughton did not want to repeat his performance so the project was rewritten to focus on a fictitious character. Rhys Williams played the part based on Bligh.
Charles Laughton wound up being cut and replaced with another featuring Dorothy Lamour, and in this form the film was retitled as "On Our Merry Way". However, an original print of "A Miracle Can Happen" was sent abroad for dubbing before the Laughton sequence was deleted, and in this form it was shown in Spain as "Una Encuesta Llamada Milagro". Laughton made his first colour film in Paris as Inspector Maigret in "The Man on the Eiffel Tower" (1949) and, wrote the "Monthly Film Bulletin", "appeared to overact" alongside Boris Karloff as a mad French nobleman in a version of Robert Louis