The Bounty 1984
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Genre:Action ,Adventure,Drama
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Director: Roger Donaldson
Stars:Mel Gibson|Anthony Hopkins|Laurence Olivier Writer:Richard Hough,Robert Bolt Songmaker:,, IMDB | Views: 1266 |
The Bounty Complete info
Genre :Action|Adventure|Drama
Title :The Bounty
Year :1984
Rating :7.0
Duration :132 min
Release :
Star:Mel Gibson,Anthony Hopkins,Laurence Olivier,Edward Fox,Daniel Day-Lewis,Bernard Hill,Philip Davis,Liam Neeson,Wi Kuki Kaa,Tevaite Vernette
Director :Roger Donaldson
Writer:Richard Hough | Robert Bolt
Country:English
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Moviescore:91 user
Movie Location:Budget: $25,000,000 (estimated)
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Movie Budget:Gross: $8,600,000 (USA)
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Movie Company:Dino De Laurentiis Company | Dino De Laurentiis Company |
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The Bounty Tagline : Taglines: They were friends through hell. They became enemies in Paradise. See more ¯
The Bounty Description
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 ... See full summary ¯
The Bounty Plot
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The Bounty Synopsis
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. Written by Reid Gagle
The Bounty Critics
I'm only giving this film 8 stars, because as good as it is "the Bounty" still leaves some undeserved blots on the reputation of a great and courageous man. A bit more truth and this film would get a TEN from me. There have been many film treatments of this amazing story, but only "The Bounty" gets it even halfway right. The 1935 Lawton/Gable "Mutiny on the Bounty" is 49% balderdash and 51% falsehood. The Trevor Howard/Marlon Bando stinker is even less factual. "The Bounty", however is pretty good history in many places, especially Bligh's court-martial and the actual mutiny sequence, which is almost word-for-word what Bligh recorded in his own writings on the matter. The ship itself is correctly represented, right down to the figurehead ? a woman in a blue riding habit, which makes no sense until one realizes that HMAV Bounty was originally a merchant ship called the Bethia. The movie does take liberties with history. Some characters are composites and some important figures are absent entirely. In the plot Bligh seeks out Christian to be his second officer. In reality Christian was a friend of Bligh's wife's family, and it was he who sought a posting on Bounty; Bligh didn't solicit his participation. In fact Bligh jiggered the ship's roster to make room for Christian. But the worst departure from fact is the business about Cape Horn and circumnavigation. The movie wants us to believe that Bligh chose the route for his own glory. Not true. Bligh complained to the Admiralty about the chosen course before they set sail from England, thinking it too dangerous for such a small vessel. But he was overruled. The return trip was never intended to go by way of Cape Horn. The cargo was breadfruit seedlings, a tropical plant that can't endure the kind of temperatures encountered in the Drake Passage or the Straits of Magellan. Bligh was forbidden to return via this route. Even if he wanted to such a course of action would have ruined his career. Also the mutiny occurred near Tofua, about 1300 miles west of Tahiti, the wrong direction to sail if you're bound for Cape Horn. Bligh was a man and a professional. Christian was a silly, overwrought upper class schoolboy who committed a vile crime over puppy love of a Polynesian girl. He got away with attempted mass murder, and 200 years later people still praise him. Bligh was a true hero who hasn't got justice yet.
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