The Bounty
The Bounty is a 1984 British epic historical drama film directed by Roger Donaldson. It depicts the voyage and mutiny of HMS Bounty, with Robert Bolt's screenplay adapting the 1972 book Captain Bligh and Mr. Christian by Richard Hough. It stars Mel Gibson as Fletcher Christian and Anthony Hopkins as William Bligh, with supporting roles played by Laurence Olivier, Daniel Day-Lewis, Liam Neeson, Bernard Hill and Edward Fox.
Plot
The court of inquiry of Commanding Lieutenant William Bligh for the loss of Bounty to mutineers begins. Via flashbacks, Bounty sets out from Portsmouth on 23 December 1787, on an expedition to Tahiti to gather breadfruit pods for transplantation in the Caribbean; Bligh electing to sail the ship west round the tip of South America to fulfill a lifelong ambition to circumnavigate the globe. After thirty-one days, the attempt to round Cape Horn fails due to harsh weather, and the ship is obliged to take the longer eastern route. Bligh promotes his friend Fletcher Christian. The ship's alcoholic surgeon, Thomas Huggan, escapes punishment for killing a man in a botched operation.
Cast
- Andrew Wilde
- Anthony Hopkins
- Barry Dransfield
- Bernard Hill
- Daniel Day-Lewis
- Dexter Fletcher
- Edward Fox
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- Jack May
- John Sessions
- Laurence Olivier
- Liam Neeson
- Malcolm Terris
- Mel Gibson
- Neil Morrissey
- Pete Lee-Wilson
- Phil Davis
- Philip Martin Brown
- Richard Graham
- Simon Adams
- Simon Chandler
- Tevaite Vernette
- Wi Kuki Kaa
More details
| author | Robert Bolt |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Pitcairn Island |
| director | Roger Donaldson |
| editor | Tony Lawson |
| events | Mutiny on the Bounty |
| genre | adventure drama historical |
| keywords | bounty breadfruit cape horn charles churchill circumnavigate drink dutch east indies exonerate fletcher christian force hms bounty island life john adams kill king tynah longboat mauatua midshipman pōmare i royal navy south america tofua william bligh |
| musicBy | Vangelis |
| producer | Bernard Williams Dino De Laurentiis |
| productionCompany | Bounty Productions Ltd. Dino De Laurentiis Corporation |
| publisher | Thorn EMI |
| recordedAt | New Zealand |
| theme | independent |