Fact1: Bounty sets sail from Britain under command of captain William Bligh, Fact2: voyage gets off to difficult start with discovery, Fact3: Mills flogged for showing contempt to superior officer to disgust of patrician second-in-command, Fact4: Bligh attempts to make up lost time by pushing crew harder and cutting rations, Fact5: Christian attempts to give him fresh water in violation of Captain 's orders
Output: In the year 1787, the Bounty sets sail from Britain for Tahiti under the command of captain William Bligh Trevor Howard. Her mission is to transport breadfruit to Jamaica, where hopefully it will thrive and provide a cheap source of food for the slaves. The voyage gets off to a difficult start with the discovery that some cheese is missing. Bligh, the true pilferer, is accused of the theft by seaman John Mills Richard Harris, and Bligh has Mills brutally flogged for showing contempt to his superior officer, to the disgust of his patrician secondincommand, 1st Lieutenant Fletcher Christian Marlon Brando. The tone for the months to come is summarized by Blighs ominous pronouncement that cruelty with a purpose is not cruelty, it is efficiency. Aristocrat Christian is deeply offended by his ambitious captain. Bligh attempts to reach Tahiti sooner by attempting the shorter westbound route around Cape Horn, a navigational nightmare. The strategy fails and the Bounty backtracks east, costing the mission much time. Singleminded Bligh attempts to make up the lost time by pushing the crew harder and cutting their rations. When the Bounty reaches her destination, the crew revels in the easygoing life of the tropical paradise — and in the freelove philosophies of the Tahitian women. Christian himself is smitten with Maimiti Tarita Teriipaia, daughter of the Tahitian king. Blighs agitation is further fueled by a dormancy period of the breadfruit: more months of delay until the plants can be transplanted. As departure day nears, three men, including seaman Mills, attempt to desert but are caught by Christian and clapped in irons by Bligh. On the voyage to Jamaica, Bligh attempts to bring back twice the number of breadfruit plants to atone for his tardiness, and must reduce the water rations of the crew to water the extra plants. One member of the crew falls from the rigging to his death while attempting to retrieve the drinking ladle. Another assaults Bligh over conditions on the ship and is fatally keelhauled. Mills taunts Christian after each death, trying to egg him on to challenge Bligh. When a crewman becomes gravely ill from drinking seawater, Christian attempts to give him fresh water in violation of the Captains orders. Bligh strikes Christian when he ignores his second order to stop. In response, Christian strikes Bligh. Bligh informs Christian that he will hang for his action when they reach port. With nothing left to lose, Christian takes command of the ship and sets Bligh and the loyalist members of the crew adrift in the longboat with navigational equipment, telling them to make for a local island. Bligh decides instead to cross much of the Pacific in order to reach British authorities sooner and arrives back in Britain with remarkable speed. The military court exonerates Bligh of misdeed and recommends an expedition to arrest the mutineers and put them on trial, but also comes to the conclusion that the appointment of Bligh as captain of The Bounty was wrong. In the meantime, Christian sails back to Tahiti to pick up supplies and the girlfriends of the crew, then on to remote and wrongly charted Pitcairn Island to hide from the wrath of the Royal Navy. Once on Pitcairn, Christian decides that it is their duty to return to Britain and testify to Blighs wrongdoing and asks his men to sail with him. To prevent this possibility the men set the ship on fire and Christian is fatally burned while trying to save it. In real life, Christian made the decision to set the ship on fire and died years later of another cause.