Christian himself is smitten with Maimiti ( Tarita Teriipaia), daughter of the Tahitian king. When the Bounty reaches her destination, the crew revels in the easygoing life of the tropical paradise – and in the free-love philosophies of the Tahitian women. Singlemindedly, Bligh makes up the lost time by pushing the crew harder and cutting their rations. The strategy fails and the Bounty backtracks eastward, costing the mission much precious time. The tone for the months to come is set by Bligh's ominous pronouncement: "Cruelty with a purpose is not cruelty, it is efficiency." Aristocrat Christian is deeply offended by his ambitious captain.īligh tries to reach Tahiti sooner by attempting the shorter westbound route around Cape Horn, a navigational nightmare. Seaman John Mills ( Richard Harris) accuses Bligh, the true pilferer, and Bligh has Mills brutally flogged for showing contempt to his superior officer, to the disgust of his patrician second-in-command, First Lieutenant Fletcher Christian ( Marlon Brando). The voyage gets off to a difficult start with the discovery that some cheese is missing. The government hopes the plants will thrive and provide a cheap source of food for the slaves. His mission is to collect a shipload of breadfruit saplings and transport them to Jamaica. In the year 1787, the Bounty sets sail from Britain for Tahiti under the command of Captain William Bligh ( Trevor Howard). Panned by critics, the film was a box office failure, losing more than $6 million (equivalent to $54 million in 2021). It was partly shot on location in the South Pacific. Mutiny on the Bounty was the first motion picture filmed in the Ultra Panavision 70 widescreen process. It is the second American film to be based on the novel, the first being Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), also produced by MGM. The film tells a fictionalized story of the real-life mutiny led by Fletcher Christian against William Bligh, captain of HMAV Bounty, in 1789. Driscoll, Borden Chase, John Gay, and Ben Hecht), based on the novel Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. The screenplay was written by Charles Lederer (with uncredited input from Eric Ambler, William L. Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1962 American Technicolor epic historical drama film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, and Richard Harris.
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