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Mutiny on the Bounty. Trevor Howard, as Captain Bligh, is all man and a yardarm wide in MGM's $18.5 million reconstruction of The Bounty, but Marlon Brando has chosen to play Fletcher Christian as a sort of hard-alee Hamlet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Jan. 11, 1963 | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

Mutiny on the Bounty. Trevor Howard, as Captain Bligh, is all man and a yardarm wide in MGM's $18.5 million reconstruction of The Bounty, but Marlon Brando has chosen to play Fletcher Christian as a sort of hard-alee Hamlet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Dec. 28, 1962 | 12/28/1962 | See Source »

Mutiny on the Bounty. Trevor Howard, as Captain Bligh, is all man and a yardarm wide in MGM's $18.5 million reconstruction of The Bounty, but Marlon Brando has inexplicably chosen to play Fletcher Christian as a sort of hard-alee Hamlet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dec. 21, 1962 | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

...skies, four days' sail from the Virgin Islands. Converted into a training ship, the brig was on her way home from what had begun ten weeks earlier as a routine cruise. But a terror unique in the U.S. Navy's history had mocked routine. From the main yardarm dangled three lifeless, hooded figures. They had been hanged by order of the ship's captain. Reason: alleged conspiracy to mutiny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Queeg's Predecessor | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

...become "a lawless wanderer upon the deep." He clapped Spencer, Cromwell and Small in irons. But, he felt, the crew's every move showed "sullenness" and "portentous" looks, and four more "mutineers" were put in irons. Spencer and his two cronies were executed without trial, hanged from the yardarm, and ceremoniously buried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Queeg's Predecessor | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

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