Offshore Quarantine

Sailin’ ye seas o’ social distancin’ since 2020

  • Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)

    Of all the movies in this set of five naval epics, Mutiny on the Bounty is the one most likely to be familiar to American audiences, primarily because of the film’s association with that notorious freebooter Marlon Brando, who seized upon the role of Fletcher Christian at the height of his career. Much of the…

  • Damn the Defiant aka HMS Defiant (1962)

    Released ahead of Mutiny on the Bounty in both the US and UK in 1962 under differing titles – Damn the Defiant and HMS Defiant – the outline of this fictional tale is somewhat like that film’s but inverted, with a kind and effective captain pitted against a sadistic and manipulative first mate who drives…