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The Bounty is on a mission in the South Seas. The brutal and arrogant Captain Bligh becomes antagonized by the genteel manner of the First Officer Christian Fletcher. While in Tahiti, the men of The Bounty are seduced by the gentle beauty of the island and its women. As they head back to England, life aboard the ship becomes unbearable. Fletcher seizes the ship and Captain blight is set adrift. The Bounty returns to Tahiti to retrieve the women, and once reunited, they set sail for a new life.
"...picture postcard scenery..." Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Editor's Note
Lewis Milestone replaced Carol Reed as director on this third version of Nordhoff and Hall's classic true account of naval rebellion. The film stars Marlon Brando as the spirited Fletcher Christian and Trevor Howard as the tyrannical Captain Bligh. Their ship, the Bounty, leaves Portsmouth in 1787, on a mission to gather breadfruit in Tahiti. As the journey progresses, however, the Captain reveals a penchant for ruthlessness that turns his entire crew against him. After they leave the paradisical Tahiti, it's only a matter of time before the situation explodes.
Plot Summary
MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY, based on Nordhoff and Hall's factual narrative of the infamous mutiny in 1789, stars Marlon Brando as First Mate Fletcher Christian. Sailing from Portsmouth in 1787, under the tyrannical rule of Captain William Bligh (Trevor Howard), the H.M.S. Bounty begins an ill-timed voyage around Cape Horn in search of the South Pacific plant, the breadfruit. As the months wear on, Bligh's backbreaking discipline, including flogging and keelhauling as punishment for minor offenses, starts to create a powerful sense of ill-will among the crew. Eventually even Christian's aristocratic foppery begins to fade as he sympathizes with the crew's suffering. Despite the brutal winter storms that threaten to tear the ship apart, the Bounty and its battered crew manage to reach Tahiti, where they enjoy the warm sun and friendly native women while waiting for the plants to be harvested. When Bligh orders the ship home, and cuts off the crew's water ration to save the plants, Christian rebels and leads the men in a mutiny, with tragic results.
| Features | 4 Vintage Featurettes: Story Of The HMS Bounty, Voyage Of The Bounty To St. Petersburg, Tour Of The Bounty & 1964 New York World's Fair Promo | | Alternate Prologue & Epilogue Sequences Not Seen Theatrically | | Audio: English, French, Spanish Dolby Digital Plus | | Dubbed: French, Spanish | | Interactive Menus | | Marlon Brando Movies Trailer Gallery | | New Featurette: After The Cameras Stopped Rolling - The Journey Of The Bounty | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | This Is An HD-DVD Made For HD-DVD Format Players Which Produce Higher Quality Picture And Sound |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Warner |
| Release Date: 11/14/2006 |
| Running Time: 185 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1962 | | Catalog ID: 79213 | | UPC: 00012569792135 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed, Spanish Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 2.76:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Nominee (1963) | | | Golden Globe, Mutiny on the Bounty, Best Motion Picture - Drama | | | Oscar, Aaron Rosenberg, Best Picture | | | Oscar, Robert Surtees, Best Cinematography, Color | | | Oscar, George W. Davis, et. al., Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color | | | Oscar, A. Arnold Gillespie, Milo B. Lory, Best Effects, Special Effects | | | Oscar, John McSweeney, Jr., Best Film Editing | | | Oscar, Bronislau Kaper, Best Music, Score - Substantially Original | | | Oscar, Bronislau Kaper, Paul Francis Webster, Best Music, Original Song |
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| | Professional Reviews | Entertainment Weekly
"[T]his lush technicolor epic is no washout." -- Grade: B 11/17/2006 p.106Brilliant Observations on 1173 Films 7 of 10
If you had asked me what Marlon Brando should never be cast as the answer would have been easy enough: a foppish British aristocrat, no way the poster boy for grit and instinct could get close to that. Here, Marlon proves he could do it all. His performance is excellent, standing out yea like a beacon yet dimming all within its illumination. There's not much else to tell the truth, Richard Harris is lusty but not yet the actor he will become; Trevor Howard is a somewhat fitting bad guy, but the audience will likely be split down the middle between those who want to beat him for his role and those who want to beat him for his execution of it. Tahiti looks sure enough like paradise for a ship full of sober sailors, but Lewis Milestone never decides whether he wants to direct an adventure, morality play, or Harlequin romance... - Clayton Trapp
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