The Bounty (1984 film) nothing but a midshipman, and made him second in command. What interested me was to explore how their relationship deteriorated from that point to where Christian leads a mutiny against Bligh." Unlike earlier versions, this film did not portray Bligh as a villainous character. According to Gibson, "It was a kind of fresh look at Captain Bligh, and I think of all the renditions of who Bligh was, his was probably the closest. His Bligh was stubborn and didn't suffer fools, but he was brilliant and just had a lot of bad luck." "The Bounty" also paints a far less
The Bounty Trilogy The Bounty Trilogy The Bounty Trilogy is a book comprising three novels by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. It relates events prior to, during and subsequent to the Mutiny on the "Bounty". The three novels, previously published separately, are:— "The Bounty Trilogy" was first published in 1936 by Little, Brown and Company, with a new preface by the authors and included vignette decorations by . This edition used the plates from the original novels and had 903 pages. In 1940 a new edition was published by Little, Brown and Company, with illustrations by N C Wyeth. This edition used