Trevor Howard

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.

Gandhi (1982)

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Richard Attenborough’s 1982 Gandhi biopic. Ben Kingsley breakthrough. Won eight Academy Awards. Three-hour epic of nonviolent resistance.

Brief Encounter (1945)

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David Lean’s 1945 British middle-class adultery drama. Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard. Railway station meetings. Rachmaninoff score.

The Third Man (1949)

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Carol Reed’s 1949 post-war Vienna thriller. Joseph Cotten investigates Orson Welles. Zither score. The sewer chase is canonical.

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