Mutiny on the Bounty

Name: Mutiny on the Bounty
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Released: 1962-11-08
Duration: 3 h 5 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris, Hugh Griffith, Richard Haydn

The mightiest excitement that ever swept across the sea or the screen!

Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)

Timing: 3:5 (185 min)

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Release date

1962-11-08

Country

United States

Production

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Arcola Pictures

Genre

Adventure, Drama, History

Budget

$19 000 000

Revenue

$13 680 000

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Director

Lewis Milestone

Actors

Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris, Hugh Griffith, Richard Haydn, Percy Herbert, Gordon Jackson, Chips Rafferty, Noel Purcell, Eddie Byrne
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Scenario

Producer

Aaron Rosenberg

Operator

Robert Surtees

Composer

Bronislau Kaper

Artist

Audition

Irene Howard

Editing

John McSweeney Jr.
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Short description

The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. 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.

What's left behind the scenes

Initially, the film's director was Englishman Carol Reed. But, unable to work with Marlon Brando, he was forced to relinquish his position to American Lewis Milestone.
During filming, Brando constantly threw tantrums and caused disagreements, which caused the budget to swell to $25 million. According to contemporaries, in his free time, the star wandered around the island in a loincloth and 'had relations with everything that moved.'
The ship, built for the film, sank in the Atlantic on October 29, 2012, during Hurricane Sandy. Two people died – Captain Robin Walbridge and Claudine Christian, a direct descendant of the Bounty's first mate, Fletcher Christian (1764-1793).
Marlon Brando (1924-2004) not only invented his own lines in scenes with Trevor Howard (1913-1988), making it difficult for the latter to act; he also stuffed his ears with cotton wool so as not to hear Howard's lines.
The scene of the ship's arrival in Tahiti, where it is greeted with enthusiasm by the natives, was filmed in the same location where the actual Bounty ship anchored in 1788. 6,000 local residents were involved as extras in this scene.

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