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Mutiny on the Bounty

1962

Lewis Milestone

Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris, Hugh Griffith ...

7.3

7,146

Adventure The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Captain Bligh will do anything to get there as fast as possible, using any means to keep up a strict discipline. When they arrive at Tahiti, it is like a paradise for the crew, something completely different than the living hell on the ship. On the way back to England, officer Fletcher Christian becomes the leader of a mutiny.

	Author	Review
United States	Variety Staff Variety	"It may be somewhat short of genuine dramatic greatness, but it is often overwhelmingly spectacular"	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"This three-hour 1962 remake of the Charles Laughton-Clark Gable MGM classic was the first production in which Marlon Brando really ran amok (....) Hardly anyone was pleased with the results."	NEG
United States	TV Guide	"It's obvious that director Milestone could not control Brando for a moment and that the famous, sometimes brilliant actor directed himself. His is one of the most impossible performances in screen history,"	NEU
United Kingdom	Will Lawrence Empire	"Brando rocks the boat with his dodgy accent and lowers the tone as history gets rewritten as vanity project. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"Has its ups and downs. Bronislau Kaper has provided a highly chromatic musical score that is consistent with the size, the sweeping romance and the eventual lumpishness of this film."	NEU
United Kingdom	Time Out	"Brando makes a total mess of his English accent, the romantic interlude in Tahiti goes on endlessly, and the visuals too often resort to travelogue vistas and picture postcard lighting."	NEG
United States	Cindy White IGN	"Watching the film now, it seems like a bit of an anachronism. The story may be set in 1789, but the style and tone of the film is pure 1962. They simply don't make films like this anymore."	NEU

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