That Hamilton Woman (1941)

Reputedly Winston Churchill's favorite film, he had it commissioned as a propaganda piece toward the start of World War II. Film tells of the romance between Britain's best Admiral, Horatio Nelson and Emma Lady Hamilton wife of the British ambassador to Naples. Patriotic and a little risky, Churchill was said to admire Nelson of course for his military proles and Lady Hamilton for her uniqueness. Story is handled well by director/producer (and Churchill personal friend) Alexander Korda, it is after all the type of historical romance he specialized in, and aided greatly by the presence of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh in the two lead roles (they too had been having a tempestuous affair and married around the time this film was made). In my opinion good but not great, it helped that it was a story I hadn't heard before and you could tell the production code was being skirted a bit, but its also perhaps excessively formal and you don't particularly bond with either lead character despite good performances. Kind of average.