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Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Nominated for 7 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 6 nominations. See more awards » Videos Midshipman Roger Byam joins Captain Bligh and Fletcher Christian aboard HMS Bounty for a voyage to Tahiti. Bligh proves to be a brutal tyrant and, after six pleasant months on Tahiti, ... See full summary » Director: Frank Lloyd The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to get his men beyond the reach of British ... See full summary » Director: Roger Donaldson An intelligent, articulate scholar, Harrison MacWhite, survives a hostile Senate confirmation hearing at the hands of conservatives to become ambassador to Sarkan, a southeast Asian country... See full summary » Director: George Englund The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony. Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz The rise and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France.

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Captain Bligh will do anything to get there as fast as possible, using any means to keep up a strict discipline. When they arrive at Tahiti, it is like a paradise for the crew, something completely different than the living hell aboard the ship. On the way back to England, officer Fletcher Christian becomes the leader of a mutiny. Written by Mattias Thuresson 8 November 1962 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Motín a bordo See more » Filming Locations: 178 min Sound Mix: 70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) (Westrex Recording System)| 4-Track Stereo (35mm release) (some prints)| Mono (35 mm prints) Color: Did You Know? Trivia The scene where the ship arrives in Tahiti to be rapturously greeted by the natives was filmed in exactly the same spot where the real Bounty dropped anchor in 1788. 6000 local extras were used for the sequence. See more » Goofs During the mutiny and boarding the rowing boat, Bligh is wearing a shirt, yet later in the rowing boat he wearing his blue officer's coat.

See more » Quotes Captain Bligh : I'm not leaving you Mr Christian, not ever. Go to the dirtiest little corner of the world I'll be there, right behind you, with a rope in my hand. A Superb Example of Classic Movie Making! 11 December 2001 | by diegosantti – See all my reviews Nominated for seven academy awards [1962] including Best Picture, "this spectacular movie of grandeur and intimacy, sex and humor, cruelty and nobility" (The Hollywood Reporter) stars two-time best actor winner Marlon Brando (The Godfather, On the Waterfront) as Fletcher Christian, a high-born English aristocrat and elegant gentleman turned Naval Lieutenant and able first officer, whose honor is inseparable from his humanity. Also in an impeccable performance, Trevor Howard's steely, sadistic Captain William Bligh commands by contempt, as malevolent toward his officers as to the crew he tortures. In idyllic Tahiti, exquisitely captured by Academy Award winner (Best Cinematography) Robert L. Surtees, Christian is seduced by Miamiti.

She is portrayed by "enchanting Tarita, a 19 year-old native whose swaying hips find their own varying levels of audience appreciation." (Daily Variety). "Mr. Brando's steel-spring vigor when the patience of Fletcher Christian snaps and he whiplashes into the fateful incitement of mutiny is truly electrifying." (New York Times) Complete with furious storms at sea, exotic native ceremonies, magnificent South Pacific island scenery, 6000 Tahitian extras, and a larger-than-life performance by the legendary Brando, this remake of the 1935 original Mutiny on the Bounty is one of the most exciting and visually astonishing adventures ever made. "A superb blending of direction [Lewis Milestone], photography and special effects" (Variety) this movie became an instant classic and still lives to this day as the best rendition of the re-telling of this true story. Very rich in visual imagery and complimented by a mesmerizing original music score (Bronislau Kaper), this film features some of the best dialogue and character portrayals of recent memory (too many to name here, but worthy of note is Hugh Griffith, Richard Harris, and Noel Purcell).

Truly a classic in the true sense of the word, and a must see film for all connoisseurs of fine movie making! A superb motion picture! Excellent! 20 of 25 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes Original Mutiny On The Bounty (1962) movie poster in VF condition for $$850 | Movieart.com Product Description MGM Style B Italian Quattro Poster (55x79). Very Fine. Original Style B Italian Quattro (79x55) for the Lewis Milestone maritime adventure, MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY (1962) starring Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris, and Hugh Griffith. This was the second MGM feature film based on the trilogy written by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. When the news broke that MGM had the audacity to remake this hallowed story, critics were aghast. Clark Gable, beloved by almost everyone in Hollywood, had played the role of Fletcher Christian in the original movie, but now the role would be played by Marlon Brando, a lightning rod for criticism. Indeed, he was mercilessly ridiculed for his dreadful British accent.

Nevertheless, Brando managed to artfully transform his character from a cavalier rogue to honorable hero who must endure the self-torment of joining a mutiny against Captain Bligh, played with sadistic gusto by Trevor Howard. The film received seven Academy Award nominations-- including Best Picture, Best Original Score, and Best Cinematography. This Italian quattro is printed on two separate panels, even though the poster is referred to as a four-sheet. Condition is very fine. We think this is one of the very best posters on this film worldwide. MARLON BRANDO - Actor Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) - Cast, Ratings, Awards Mutiny on the Bounty Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) Adventure | 2 hours and 59 minutes | November 8, 1962 (USA) Be the first to review +4 Producer: Aaron Rosenberg Writers: Charles Nordhoff, James Norman Hall, Charles Lederer On a sea voyage to transport breadfruit to Jamaica, English Captain Bligh (Trevor Howard) abuses his crew and officers enough to anger his 1st Lieutenant, Fletcher Christian (Marlon Brando).

When they reach their destination, tensions ease and the crew luxuriates in island life until Bligh claps several men in irons for trying to desert. On the trip home, further indignities inspire Christian to stage a mutiny and set Bligh and those loyal to him afloat in a row boat. See All Movies Did You Like The Movie? Advertisement More Movies With Marlon Brando How famous is the cast of "Mutiny on the Bounty"? PrettyFamous Score The PrettyFamous score quantifies the fame of the film's cast members based on the number of awards the actors and actresses have ever been nominated for, combined box office gross of all the movies the actors and actresses have been in, and the current internet popularity of the cast. Ranking Every Matthew McConaughey Movie From Worst to Best PrettyFamous tracked Matthew McConaughey's career by ranking his entire filmography (no matter what size his role) to date from worst to first.

7 minute read › Clio's Eye Main Article Mutiny on the Bounty and the Real Captain Bligh By Jeremy Wright Heralded as one of the greatest movies in the history of cinema and certainly the most expensive one Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer had produced up to its release date, the depression era Mutiny on the Bounty is a classic piece of Thirties' film. This is NOT that movie. This is 1962's Mutiny on the Bounty, a rather cumbersome yet often entertaining picture recounting the very same events as the previous movie: the 1789 mutiny led by Fletcher Christian against the abusive English commander William Bligh. Overall a decent film, if excessive in length, this Mutiny on the Bounty is historically a relatively accurate depiction of what is probably one of the world's most infamous sea stories. Released on November 8, 1962 Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer's Mutiny on the Bounty, starring Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, and Richard Harris was director Lewis Milestone's last feature film.

Shot in Ultra-Panavision 70 using the one-strip Technicolor system with six track audio, Mutiny on the Bounty features some beautiful cinematic seascapes and landscapes presented in 2.76:1 anamorphic widescreen. However, one of the most interesting and beautiful sights in the film is the Bounty itself. The Bounty was the first ship built from the keel up for a motion picture. Using copies of the original plans in the British archives, Bounty was built by two hundred shipwrights in eight months at a cost of roughly $750,000. She was built thirty feet longer, six feet wider, and ten and half feet taller than the original H.M.A.V. Bounty in order to accommodate a pair of diesel engines and a full film crew running five-hundred pound cameras that were far too heavy to lift individually, especially on the open seas. Although it was nominated for thirteen awards in 1963, including seven Academy Award nominations, and won both a Golden Laurel for Top Song and a Golden Reel for Best Sound Editing the movie proved a “bust”in box office returns.

The three hour Mutiny on the Bounty cost some nineteen million dollars to produce and only raked in a little over thirteen million in box office. Some of the major hiccups in production appear to be the work of Marlon Brando. according to Bob Thomas' Marlon: Portrait of the Artist as a Rebel, Marlon Brando apparently became upset at the firing of Carol Reed as director and began "usurping power" as Lewis Milestone came aboard as the new director. Brando is said to have persuaded the camera operator to tacitly take his directions rather than those of Milestone. Milestone eventually became so fed up he considered quitting. According to the documentary, After the Cameras Stopped Rolling: the Journey of the Bounty, it came to Brando's attention that the Bounty used on the set was actually to be set on fire and sunk on camera. He threatened to walk off the picture if that was the case. When that fateful scene came, the crew built a forty foot replica to burn and sink instead; obviously costs continued to expand. After a lengthy and loud musical overture, the film finally begins.

Standing aboard Bounty while in port, William Bligh (Trevor Howard) is introduced to his young poseur of a Master's Mate, Fletcher Christian, (Marlon Brando). Leaving Portsmouth on December 23, 1787, Commanding Lieutenant Bligh and his crew set sail for the island of Tahiti on the other side of the world on a mission to recover a large quantity of breadfruit and deliver it to Jamaica for the purposes of creating a subsistence food for slaves. Bligh immediately sets his crew on the defensive by choosing to sail around Cape Horn at the southern tip of South America in an attempt to cut five months off the journey. His choice appears to be both a result of having sailed with the famed Captain Cook who chose the same path and of Bligh's desire to attract the attention of the Admiralty Board for having sped the expedition along. After the vessel was tossed about for quite some time, the near arctic conditions and onslaught of headwinds halt Bounty's progress and Bligh is forced to turn about and take the traditional path south of the Cape of Good Hope and India, through southeast Asia waters, and north of New Holland to Tahiti.

Bligh decides that the failure to make headway is due to terrible seamanship, so he places the men on half rations. Throughout the journey sailor after sailor falls ill or victim to the petty issues and brutal cruelty of Captain Bligh. One man is flogged by Bligh for making disparaging remarks against his captain when he explains that the theft he was accused of was actually ordered by the Captain himself. Tensions ran high and the crew grew weary long before they reached their destination, Tahiti. Upon arrival the sailors fall in love with the morally relaxed culture of the island. The "hedonistic ways" of the Tahitians — as Bligh puts it — grow on the sailors and create new problems. Eventually the men depart Tahiti only to find that water for the breadfruit plants has run short, and, as a matter of course, Bligh puts a limit on water rations so strict that one dizzy sailor dies from a fall at the top of the ship's main mast. Water rationing causes another sailor to hoard and drink seawater and become deathly ill. For Christian, the turning point from loyalty to treason comes when Bligh chastises his subordinate for giving water to the sick man, thus, triggering the actual mutiny.

Christian acts in what is perhaps the moral way but definitively an illegal way by seizing the ship and removing the captain. Captain Bligh is pushed off in a launch with a set of charts, a sextant, and a dozen and a half disagreeable albeit non-mutinous sailors. While the Bounty makes its way back to Tahiti, Bligh, against incredible odds, sets a hard course for distant Timor and eventually England. Meanwhile, the mutineers take on probably twenty or so Tahitian men and women and sail off to find a place to hide from authority in the oceanic middle of nowhere. In an effort to escape a nearby British warship during cover of night, Christian finds that his Bounty is approaching Pitcairn Island, which has been charted inaccurately by over 170 nautical miles. The mutineers disembark and make camp on the island. Meanwhile, after one of history’s most amazing feats of navigation, Bligh reaches England but must face an Admiralty investigation.

Ultimately he is absolved of any guilt in the loss of the ship, but he is harshly reprimanded by the Admiralty Board: Your methods, so far as this court can discern, show what we shall cautiously term an excess of zeal. We cannot condemn zeal. We cannot rebuke an officer who has administered discipline according to the articles of war but the articles are fallible, as any articles are bound to be. No code can cover all contingencies. We cannot put justice aboard our ships in books. Justice and decency are carried in the heart of the captain, or they be not aboard. It is for this reason that the Admiralty has always sought to appoint its officers from the ranks of gentlemen. The court regrets to note that the appointment of Captain William Bligh was, in that respect, a failure. In the Pacific, in an effort to stop Fletcher Christian from trying to take them back to England to testify against Bligh in their own defense, the mutineers set fire to the Bounty. Christian's Tahitian wife, Maimiti, wakes him, and he assembles a group of officers to board Bounty and rescue vital navigational equipment.

Christian is severely burned, carried back to shore, and the audience suffers through the longest death scene in what is probably all of film existence, past, present, and future in all of space and every possible dimension. The audience awakes mercifully some time later to the words "The End." The excruciatingly endless death scene is not the only strange and overly extended point in the movie. For example, earlier when the men arrive in Tahiti, the picture has taken on a new tone. It is then that the film shows its heritage as a 1960's motion picture. It becomes very oddly sexual, abnormally comic, and well beyond too long. The dancing, seducing, and loving really take up far too much of the time spent on the island and probably add more than fifteen minutes of unnecessary footage and pointless dialogue. In an effort to make much more interesting supporting characters, there is also a tendency throughout for the minor characters to spend too much time performing tasks, repeating actions, and sailing past the same places. There is much to be said for the ability of a good editor and a clever director to condense the feeling of time in a film.

Yet surprisingly, despite the overall length and the particularly long awkwardness of the pace of the film, it, like the ship, does glide agilely along, in part, perhaps, because the film is quite pretty to look at. The very fine grain the 70mm Ultra¬Panavision stock provides really shows off the gorgeous ocean sunsets, the lush tropical islands, the excellent craftsmanship of the Bounty itself, and the actors in typically accurate and vivid costumes provide for sharp contrasts. The few times when the illusion of the film becomes spoiled tend to be a result of green screen work and matte shots. While it is a clever way to get pick-up shots under a time crunch, early green screen work just looks too primitive until front projection was developed about six years after this film. But just when an illusion seems lost, Trevor Howard appears in time to save the scene or Brando manages to simultaneously butcher British English and still perform brilliantly. Brando does tend to do well in the role, but his interpretation requires an open mind.

Brando's Christian is a foppish dandy as the film presents him, and although this is not the "traditional" heroic role, the approach makes for a mildly interesting dynamic between him and Howard's Bligh in a movie sometimes light on truly interesting character interactions. Trevor Howard's performance as Bligh also proved strong and original. One reviewer mentioned that perhaps historically biggest criticisms of the film came from the simple fact that it was not the original, referring to the 1935 Laughton-Gable production. Frankly though, the original is not really even the real original. Prior to the 1935 Mutiny on the Bounty, two other Australian films took on the subject, one silent and one a talkie starring an as yet unknown Errol Flynn, but these were not widely known to American audiences. Paul Brenner also mentions in a review that when this version of Mutiny on the Bounty was released Clark Gable had recently died and the critic suggests that movie-goers, sentimentally but unrealitically, expected an homage to Gable approach.

Whether this is accurate or not is difficult to tell, but Brando made the role of Fletcher Christian uniquely his own, perhaps to the chagrin of the 1962 audience. Indeed, the 1962 Mutiny on the Bounty is largely distinctive and historically accurate. Some license was taken with character behavior; much of Fletcher Christian's documented history takes place on Bounty, so for any actor imaginatively pulling together how he might have acted seems a necessity. Bligh, however, had a long military record from which an actor can draw. Based on these records, Trevor Howard likely came very close to capturing the real Captain Bligh. In particular, his rough language and blustering arrogance seem to be reflected in Admiralty records and in the often repeated admonishments from his superiors. Mutiny on the Bounty shows a grand and fashionably late entrance by Fletcher Christian and his first meeting with an irritated Captain Bligh. The truth is that Captain Bligh knew Fletcher Christian personally; they had sailed together on a previous occasion and were considered friendly colleagues. In fact, Bligh demoted another officer and raised Christian up to Master's Mate during their voyage on the Bounty.

The film shows, however, many physical punishments inflicted on the crew to be the catalyst for the mutiny including the keel-hauling of and resultant death via shark attack of a sailor. It was the harsh verbal abuse by Bligh, combined with physically demeaning punitive actions that caused the real mutiny. In truth, keel¬hauling was not only illegal and not actually used by Bligh, but there is little or no record of keel¬hauling aboard any British royal navy ship; it was generally a Dutch naval practice. In deed, Bligh's use of corporal punishment was well under the average for British Navy commanders. Yet, he would face a court-martial investigation again in 1805 and was reprimanded for abusive language in a wholly separate case. Without question, Bligh was a hot tempered, sharp tongued commander at times. After his return to England in 1790 and his subsequent enquiry, Captain Bligh was defamed as "the Bounty Bastard." This moniker stuck with Bligh throughout his career.

It just so happens that this nickname came from pamphlets produced and circulated by Christian's brother attempting to tell the other side of the story and was largely based upon testimony by Midshipman John Mills. Part of the historical problems with the film rests in faulty editing and lack of focus for a coherent story. As a result, over and under emphasizing of events confuse or bore the audience. On points of accuracy, Bounty did, in fact, waste the five months claimed in the film attempting to round Cape Horn. It did arrive in Tahiti after tedious months at sea, it did have to remain in Tahiti for six more months until the Breadfruit was at a stage that was safe to travel, and the ship did eventually die a fiery death off the coast of Pitcairn Island, where some of its remains were still visible in the twentieth century. However, Captain Bligh did not instantly arrive in England, as the film seems to imply.

It took him roughly over a year to return, Yet, remarkably, during a journey in a small boat over crowded with eighteen loyal sailors, (only one of his men died in a brief violent skirmish with natives on the island of Tofua) Bligh navigated 3,600 miles of open sea to land safely in Timor and then make the lengthy voyage to England. Having said that, why then — if the director and editor find it acceptable to jump from Bligh just being kicked off the ship to immediately traversing thousands miles to a court room in England — didn't they edit down the rest of the three hour long film? Especially that overture and that death scene! Historical inconsistencies, confused edits, egotistical actors, and a less than stellar critical reception: in all, this is, nevertheless, an interesting movie. The camera work only falters once, and the green screen scenes pass rather quickly. This movie has some majestic qualities that seem only to be found in nautical films. Marlon Brando's performance might pale slightly in comparison to Trevor Howard's, but only barely; they are both really quite decent and intriguing contrasts, if not great performances.

MGM's 1962 version of Mutiny on the Bounty deserves much credit for effort— they built the real Bounty from the keel up after all! If it sounds like an interesting story (and mostly it is), So … clear your day planner and start watching! And that's merely for that overture! Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) Pages: ( 1 ) ( 2 ) Background Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) is one of the best nautical adventure films of all time and one of MGM's greatest classics. The rousing, 18th century story of the Bounty's mutiny, directed by Frank Lloyd, was adapted from the first two volumes of the Charles Nordhoff-James Norman Hall 1932 best selling novel The Bounty Trilogy (composed of Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against the Sea, and Pitcairn Island). It echoed the semi-documentary In the Wake of the Bounty (1933, Australia) which starred Errol Flynn in his movie debut as Fletcher Christian; both films were based upon the 1932 novel Mutiny on the Bounty by Nordoff and Hall.

For authenticity, the film was shot on location in the South Pacific's Tahiti, as well as on Catalina Island, Santa Barbara, and in MGM's Culver City studios, over a period of three months. The over-budget (about $2 million) MGM film was the studio's most expensive production since Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925), but it was also the highest-grossing film of 1935 (at $4.5 million). It was nominated for a total of eight Academy Awards, and its sole Oscar was for Best Picture. It was very unusual that the profitable film received no other Oscars than Best Picture (two other earlier MGM productions had done the same thing - Broadway Melody (1928-29) and Grand Hotel (1932) ).

The other seven nominations included three Best Actor nominations (Clark Gable, Charles Laughton, and Franchot Tone, who split the vote and gave the award to Victor McLaglen for The Informer) - a unique accomplishment (although Tone's performance was more like a supporting role, but the awards category hadn't been created yet), Best Director (Frank Lloyd), Best Screenplay (Talbot Jennings, Jules Furthman and Carey Wilson), Best Film Editing (Margaret Booth), and Best Score. It was the first film to have three acting nominations, and the first film to have three co-performers competing against each other in the same category - as Best Actor. Charles Laughton, who had won the Best Actor Oscar for The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), gave an exaggerated portrayal of the duty-obsessed, cruel and arrogant Captain Bligh - he made the character one of the screen's most memorable and abusive villains.

The film's tagline reflects his character: "A thousand hours of Hell for one moment of love." [The first choice for the Bligh role was Wallace Beery.] Virile Clark Gable, who had won the Best Actor Oscar the previous year for It Happened One Night (1934) , took the secondary role as the fair-minded First Mate Fletcher Christian, although he was reluctant to wear silly-looking breeches, sport a sailor's pony-tail, and shave off his mustache. With his performance, he solidified his status as one of the leading actors of the 30s. The screenplay departed from some of the facts of the true event by romanticizing the cavortings of the 'beefcake' crew with the Tahitian native women, and by distorting the historical record with a denouncement and snubbing of the contemptuous, malevolent Bligh at the conclusion of the court-martial trial - in fact, the notorious Captain Bligh was later promoted to the rank of Vice Admiral by the British Navy.

[Of the various film versions of the tale, The Bounty (1985), starring Anthony Hopkins as Bligh and Mel Gibson as Fletcher Christian, was the most accurate.] One remake, starring Marlon Brando and Trevor Howard, the 70 mm Panavision widescreen version of Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), fared poorly. The Story The tale was the rousing, handsome adventure story of the sailing of the H. M. S. Bounty in 1787, departing from Portsmouth, England for a two year voyage, its scientific mission to transport breadfruit from Tahiti to the West Indies as an inexpensive food source for plantation slave laborers. Before the ship sets sail with a crew of English conscripts, preparations are made. A toast is given by Midshipman Roger Byam (Franchot Tone), on his first cruise as a midshipman: To the voyage of the Bounty. Still waters of the great golden sea. Flying fish like streaks of silver, and mermaids that sing in the night. The Southern Cross and all the stars on the other side of the world.

The ship is captained by a tyrannical, harsh, sadistic disciplinarian Captain William Bligh (Charles Laughton) and his well-respected Master's Mate (first officer to the Captain) Fletcher Christian (Clark Gable, appearing without a mustache for the last time in a film). Before they set sail in their third voyage together, Bligh orders a flogging of a dead man, to punish the infraction to the letter of the law. He tells Christian: They respect but one law - the law of fear...I expect you to carry out whatever orders I give, whenever I give them. On the journey, Bligh quickly shows contempt for the men in his crew, and treats them with brutality, in a regime of fear and punishment. Bligh lectures the seamen: The ship's company will remember that I am your captain, your judge, and your jury. You do your duty and we may get along. Whatever happens, you'll do your duty. He barks chilling, staccato orders to his Master's Mate in an oft-repeated line: "Mr. Christian - come here." He cruelly and sadistically meets a sailor's request for water in the hot weather: "I'll give you water.

Mr. Morrison. Keel haul this man." Bligh continually goads Fletcher Christian who has already gained the respect of the entire crew. Christian resents his Captain's inhumanity (at one point, Bligh puts his men on half-rations): I've never known a better seaman, but as a man, he's a snake. He doesn't punish for discipline. He likes to see men crawl. Sometimes, I'd like to push his poison down his own throat. The voyage is long and arduous, but the Bounty finally arrives in Tahiti. Christian is ordered to stay on deck, but Byam is allowed to go ashore, where he is befriended by Hitihiti, the island's chieftain. Byam is quickly entranced after meeting and falling in love with one of the beautiful Tahitian women, Tehani (Maria "Movita" Castaneda, who later married Marlon Brando!). When the chief arranges for Christian to come ashore for one day, the Master's mate also meets and falls in love with Hitihiti's granddaughter, Maimiti (Mamo Clark).

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Wellman, Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast Stars: Clara Bow, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Richard Arlen In 1787, British ship Bounty leaves Portsmouth to bring a cargo of bread-fruit from Tahiti but the savage on-board conditions imposed by Captain Bligh trigger a mutiny led by officer Fletcher Christian. Directors: Lewis Milestone, Carol Reed Stars: Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris A cavalcade of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 until 1933 seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot. Amongst events touching their family are the Boer War,... See full summary » Director: Frank Lloyd Edit Storyline Midshipman Roger Byam joins Captain Bligh and Fletcher Christian aboard HMS Bounty for a voyage to Tahiti. Bligh proves to be a brutal tyrant and, after six pleasant months on Tahiti, Christian leads the crew to mutiny on the homeward voyage. Even though Byam takes no part in the mutiny, he must defend himself against charges that he supported Christian.

Written by Eric Sorensen <Eric_Sorensen@fc.mcps.k12.md.us> Clark Gable as the daring mutineer in the screen's most exciting adventure story! See more » Genres: Meuterei auf der Bounty See more » Filming Locations: Mono (Western Electric Sound System) Color: Did You Know? Trivia Louis B. Mayer reportedly disliked the script. "Where's the romance?" was his reported complaint. Clark Gable initially objected to playing Christian but was talked into it by executive E.J. Mannix who told him he'd be " . . . the only guy in the picture who gets anything to do with a dame." See more » Goofs When the Pandora runs aground, the prisoners are shown being unshackled below deck and safely released.

In reality, four went down with the ship (two still manacled and two struck by a falling gangway.) See more » Quotes Played often in the score Sung by the crewmen (Biloxi, Mississippi) – See all my reviews Based on the then-popular novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, the 1935 MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY is among a series of legendary films of the 1930s that have been repeatedly celebrated for cinematic achievement. And small wonder: the film has a host of powerful assets. The single most obvious among these is the star power involved: led by two Oscar-winning stars, the critically formidable Charles Laughton and the incredibly popular Clark Gable, the cast reads like a Who's Who of mid-1930s male actors ranging from leading man Franchot Tone to the memorable character actor Donald Crisp. In a visual sense, the film is also a knockout: filmed on location in a full-size replica of the Bounty, it set a new standard for capturing the sea on film. And the story itself is powerful, the tale of the battle between the cruel and autocratic Bligh and the humane and populist Fletcher Christian.

Taken together, it makes for a powerful ride. Still, some viewers may not find MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY all it is cracked to be. Then as now, Hollywood was less interested in getting the facts right than in telling a good story--and from a factual point of view the film is perhaps twenty percent accurate and eighty percent nothing more nor less than historical tarradiddle. That is no real hindrance per se; after all, we're not watching a documentary. But seen from a modern standpoint the cast now feels somewhat problematic. Charles Laughton was so critically well regarded that he received star billing over Clark Gable for the film, and seen today his performance is easily the single most powerful in the entire film. Autocratic, brilliant, and immediately and increasingly unlikable, he drives the film from start to finish--and it is here, really, in which most of the film's historical accuracy resides. The rest of the cast, however, is extremely Hollywood. Clark Gable, Franchot Tone and all the rest give an excellent show, full of power and drive--but you never for a moment forget that they are indeed Hollywood stars and not members of the British Navy.

This is very much a "big" film in the MGM tradition, often brilliant, often memorable, and often setting new standards for the motion picture industry. And when regarded from that point of view it is extremely, extremely entertaining. But it may also be a film whose power has slightly faded with the passing of time. Gary F. Taylor, aka GFT, Amazon Reviewer 23 of 32 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes

Question: Which actor played the roll of Fletcher Christian in the 1962 film "Mutiny on the Bounty"?
Answer: MARLON BRANDO