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.

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Film Cast:

• Fletcher Christian: Mel Gibson
• Lieutenant William Bligh: Anthony Hopkins
• Admiral Hood: Laurence Olivier
• Captain Greetham: Edward Fox
• John Fryer: Daniel Day-Lewis
• William Cole: Bernard Hill
• Edward Young: Phil Davis
• Charles Churchill: Liam Neeson
• King Tynah: Wi Kuki Kaa
• Mauatua: Tevaite Vernette
• John Adams: Philip Martin Brown
• David Nelson: Simon Chandler
• Dr. John Huggan: Malcolm Terris
• Thomas Heywood: Simon Adams
• John Smith: John Sessions
• William McCoy: Andrew Wilde
• Matthew Quintal: Neil Morrissey
• John Mills: Richard Graham
• Thomas Ellison: Dexter Fletcher
• William Purcell: Pete Lee-Wilson
• John Norton: Jon Gadsby
• Robert Lamb: Brendan Conroy
• Michael Byrne: Barry Dransfield
• James Valentine: Steve Fletcher
• Richter: Jack May
• König Tynahs Frau: Mary Kauila
• Lieutenant William Blighs Frau: Sharon Bower
• König Tynahs Berater: Tavana

Film Crew:

• Director: Roger Donaldson
• Screenplay: Robert Bolt
• Producer: Bernard Williams
• Producer: Dino De Laurentiis
• Original Music Composer: Vangelis
• Editor: Tony Lawson
• Casting: Debbie McWilliams
• Production Design: John Graysmark
• Art Direction: Tony Reading
• Set Decoration: Louise Carrigan
• Set Decoration: Robert Cartwright
• Costume Design: John Bloomfield
• Makeup Artist: Paul Engelen
• Hairstylist: Jeanette Freeman
• Stunts Coordinator: Victor Magnotta
• Director of Photography: Arthur Ibbetson
• Novel: Richard Hough
• Assistant Director: David Tringham
• Special Effects Supervisor: John Stears
• Production Supervisor: Douglas Twiddy
• Production Manager: David Middlemas
• Production Manager: Margaret Hilliard
• Location Manager: Jonty Barraud
• Location Manager: Arnold Ross
• Production Coordinator: Loretta Ordewer
• Second Assistant Director: Michael Stevenson
• Third Assistant Director: Debbie Vertue
• Script Supervisor: June Randall
• Assistant Art Director: Michael Boone
• Assistant Art Director: Ben Teriitehau
• Camera Operator: John Harris
• Steadicam Operator: Toby Phillips
• Sound Recordist: John W. Mitchell
• Boom Operator: Keith Pamplin
• Still Photographer: Murray Close
• Choreographer: Terry Gilbert
• Dialogue Coach: Joan Washington
• Production Accountant: Pat Howell
• Assistant Accountant: Terry Mellis
• Assistant Accountant: Craig Barwick
• Makeup Artist: Neville Smallwood
• Makeup Artist: Rosalind McCorquodale
• Hairstylist: Betty Glasow
• Hairstylist: Francia Smeets
• Property Master: Bert Hearn
• Key Grip: Graeme Mardell
• Gaffer: Mick Morris
• Dialogue Editor: Michael Hopkins

Movie Reviews:

• CinemaSerf: 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 competent effort from Mel Gibson) and as our journey progresses, the film takes it’s time to develop the gradually building toxicity of that relationship as the former man treats the crew with scant humanity. After a great many trials and tribulations, their relationship is all but shot when they arrive at their destination and we know that the writing is on the wall for Bligh. Unlike the other “Bounty” films, this one spends a bit more time presenting the epic and perilous open-boat journey undertaken by the dispossessed – the high seas, the cannibals, the shortages – and Hopkins holds that together really well. This man may have been an inhumane individual, but he was no mean sailor too. The cinematography is top drawer, well complemented by Vangelis’ score and Robert Bolt’s adaptation of the story that keeps the dialogue tight and potent – especially from Hopkins. Not quite Laughton and Gable, but then…