Gandhi (1982)
Richard Attenborough’s 1982 Gandhi biopic. Ben Kingsley breakthrough. Won eight Academy Awards. Three-hour epic of nonviolent resistance.
This archive gathers the films featuring Trevor Howard reviewed at Master of Worlds: “Brief Encounter (1945)”, “Gandhi (1982)”, “Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)”, and “The Third Man (1949)” — 4 titles in all. Across these reviews the focus stays on how Trevor Howard serves each story: the choices that make a performance work, the roles that anchor a film, and the range visible across different pictures. Rather than rank the performances, the collection treats them as a body of work worth examining. The list continues to expand as additional films are reviewed.
Richard Attenborough’s 1982 Gandhi biopic. Ben Kingsley breakthrough. Won eight Academy Awards. Three-hour epic of nonviolent resistance.
David Lean’s 1945 British middle-class adultery drama. Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard. Railway station meetings. Rachmaninoff score.
Carol Reed’s 1949 post-war Vienna thriller. Joseph Cotten investigates Orson Welles. Zither score. The sewer chase is canonical.
1962 Lewis Milestone epic with Marlon Brando as Fletcher Christian and Trevor Howard as Captain Bligh. Tahitian dream meets imperial cruelty.