‘The 1960’s Mutiny on the Bounty with Trevor Howard and Marlon Brando...’
I don’t know; I thought Howard captured the arrogant, unsympathetic Bligh pretty well, as opposed to Charles Laughton in 1935; Hopkins I thought played Bligh in a too hyperbolic light, freaking out over minutiae...
hands down, the worst portrayal of Christian was Brando; an absurd performance, really...
The problem wasn't Howard's acting but the way that the character was written. Bligh was portrayed as a malicious sadist who delighted in depriving his crew of food and water and other needless torments, and in so doing it presents the mutiny as though it were entirely Bligh's fault.