The Bounty

  • Action
  • Drama
  • History
5/4/1984
132
PG

After 200 years, the truth behind the legend.

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 retribution, and the epic voyage of Lieutenant Bligh to get his loyalists safely to East Timor in a tiny lifeboat.

Revenue:
$8,613,462
Budget:
$25,000,000

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  • Geronimo1967

    When you already have a definitive version of a story on film (1935) it's always tough to remake it successfully. To be fair to Roger Donaldson, he has managed to come pretty close - and do far better than the 1962 iteration - with this well cast telling of a story of mutiny and brutality. It's told by way of a retrospective as Lord Hood (Lord Olivier) conducts an investigation into what happened aboard the ill-fated ship. Anthony Hopkins is the disciplinarian Lt. Bligh in charge of the glorified freighter "HMS Bounty" which is charged with heading to Tahiti to secure breadfruit trees that can be used to feed the slaves by the colonies in the West Indies. His second-in-command is the no-nonsense but eminently more fair Fletcher Christian (a...

    November 5, 2023
  • Wuchak

    The most accurate and realistic version of the infamous mutiny

    The 1935 black & White version of "Mutiny on the bounty" may have won an Oscar for Best Picture at the time, but will likely strike modern viewers as dated and unrealistic. Marlon Brando's 1962 remake is the most epic, captivating and compelling version. But Mel Gibson's 1984 version, simply called "The Bounty," is the most historically accurate and realistic cinematic version of the infamous mutiny.

    The Bounty mutiny story is so fascinating because it's TRUE (SPOILER): William Bligh, as acting captain, was sent on a mission in December 1787 to bring breadfruit plants from Tahiti back to Jamaica. Bligh intended on circumnavigating the globe in fulfilling the mi...

    September 18, 2025

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