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Mutiny on the Bounty

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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.
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Derek Adams Time Out 02/09/2006
Brando makes a total mess of his English accent, the romantic interlude in Tahiti goes on endlessly, and the visuals (perhaps the main point of interest in the movie) too often resort to travelogue vistas and picture postcard lighting. Go to Full Review Bosley Crowther New York Times 05/09/2005
3/5
...Marlon Brando makes Fletcher Christian an eccentric who dominates the entire dramatic scheme. Go to Full Review Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader 01/01/2000
Hardly anyone was pleased with the results. Go to Full Review Marlene Matouk Tampa Bay Times 01/13/2021
It's a gigantic, physical long movie... visually and emotionally enduring. Sign on for a spree, you won't be sorry. Go to Full Review Clyde Gilmour Maclean's Magazine 10/07/2019
The panoramic color photography does ample justice to billowing sails, Tahitian scenery and gory violence afloat. Go to Full Review Dwight MacDonald Esquire Magazine 08/09/2019
MGM spent some $20,000,000 on the film. They could have saved most of it and had a better picture by sticking to the Bligh-Christian conflict and omitting the Spectacular Clutter. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Alec B @Alec97 05/01/2025 A bloated and meandering mess. Each sequence is barely hiding the numerous behind the scenes tensions. Most fixate on Brando's accent (its certainly a choice!) but few point out the multiple hard cuts to him mincing around in weird little outfits even when something serious is happening. See more Gregory N @RT36091242 01/25/2025 Brando ruins the whole idea. See more Connor S @RT33873007 04/03/2024 Perhaps even better than the original, which says a lot. It's 50/50, but just as wonderful scenery, acting, and musical score all make you feel like you're on the shores of Tahiti 200+ years ago. See more anthony m @ArgoMalle44 02/29/2024 Beautifully photgraphed with Brando in top form. Thoroughly engaging saga of the sea, the three hours sails by. The story pits a foppish first mate [Brando] against a sado-masochitic captain supported by the naval code of conduct of ship's officers and their captain. On a symbolic level, the BOUNTY is the world in which absolute authority can be so oppressive that even a well-bred gentleman and officer must fight violence with violence. SPOILER ALERT! the gentleman loses. See more James B @JamesBass 03/28/2023 Brando is a miscast, but the movie checks a lot of boxes. See more t z @RT27782748 09/19/2022 Adventure on the High Seas! Though it's not exactly Lawrence Of Arabia on the high seas it does capture the flavor of Tahiti in the same way Lawrence captures the flavor of the desert and the way most Epics of the 50s through the 70s do. Brando's Mister Christian isn't up to competing with O'Toole's Lawrence, but it is a perfectly adequate foil to Trevor Howard's Bligh. I enjoy it for the 60s Epic it is. Just as I enjoy the 1935 version for what it is and the 1985's The Bounty for what it is. Beautiful shots of Tahiti, a great soundtrack and Howard and Brando chewing up the scenery with over the top performances. Makes me laugh like King Hitihiti! See more Read all reviews
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Lewis Milestone

Director

Carol Reed

Director

Marlon Brando

1st Lt. Fletcher Christian

Trevor Howard

Capt. William Bligh

Richard Harris

Seaman John Mills

Hugh Griffith

Alexander Smith

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Synopsis 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.
Director
Lewis Milestone, Carol Reed
Producer
Aaron Rosenberg
Screenwriter
Charles Nordhoff, James Norman Hall, Charles Lederer, Eric Ambler, Ben Hecht
Distributor
MGM/UA Home Entertainment Inc., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Production Co
Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Genre
Adventure
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Nov 8, 1962, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 1, 2009
Runtime
3h 0m
Sound Mix
Stereo
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