Mutiny on the Bounty (1962 film) Milestone. "Lack of vision. When they realised there was so much trouble with the script they should have stopped the whole damn production. If they did not like Marlon's behaviour they should have told him that they must do as they wished or else they should have taken him out of the picture. But they just did not have the guts." Bosley Crowther of "The New York Times" wrote that "there's much that is eye-filling and gripping as pure spectacle," but criticized Marlin Brando for making Fletcher Christian "more a dandy than a formidable ship's officer ... one feels the
Mutiny on the Bounty (1962 film) We know this style. We know how to survive." Filming continued to be difficult with production plagued by bad weather and script problems. Richard Harris clashed with Brando. "Marlon did not have approval of the story," said Milestone. "But he did have approval of himself. If Brando did not like something he would just stand in front of the camera and not act. He thought only of himself. At the same time, he was right in many things that he wanted. He is too cerebral to play the part of Mr Christian the way Clark Gable played it." Milestone says