An idyllic voyage to Tahiti in 1789 turns a crew aboard the H.M.S. Bounty against its captain when they find a tropical paradise.
Acting
Hopkins' Bligh is somehow sympathetic AND despicable. Magic.
Cinematography
Actual Tahiti locations — no green screen, just pure turquoise thirst.
Production
Full-scale ship replica that nearly killed the budget AND the crew.
Director
Roger Donaldson
Mel Gibson
Fletcher Christian
Anthony Hopkins
Lieutenant William Bligh
Daniel Day-Lewis
John Fryer
Bernard Hill
William Cole
Liam Neeson
Charles Churchill
Phil Davis
Edward Young
Wi Kuki Kaa
King Tynah
Tevaite Vernette
Mauatua
Laurence Olivier
Admiral Hood
Edward Fox
Captain Greetham
Philip Martin Brown
John Adams
Simon Chandler
David Nelson
Malcolm Terris
Dr. John Huggan
John Sessions
John Smith
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was the FIFTH film adaptation of the Bounty mutiny. Orson Welles narrates the prologue, presumably because someone owed someone a favor.
The 1984 version was specifically made to 'correct' 1962's Mutiny on the Bounty, which presented Bligh as a sadist cartoon. Historians still argue about which film lies better.
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