Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film) him, Byam speaks of Bligh's cruel, dehumanising conduct aboard "Bounty". Due to the intervention of his friend Sir Joseph Banks (Henry Stephenson) and Lord Hood (David Torrence), Byam is pardoned by King George III and allowed to resume his naval career at sea. Meanwhile, Christian has found Pitcairn, an uninhabited yet sustainable island that he believes will provide adequate refuge from the reach of the Royal Navy. After "Bounty" crashes on the rocks, Christian orders her to be burned. The movie contains several historical inaccuracies. Captain Bligh was never on board , nor was he present at the trial of
The Bounty (1984 film) characters in a screenplay that may or may not have been tampered with... The movie seems to have been planned, written, acted, shot and edited by people who were constantly being over-ruled by other people. It's totally lifeless. The film was entered into the 1984 Cannes Film Festival. The Bounty (1984 film) The Bounty is a 1984 British historical drama film directed by Roger Donaldson, starring Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins, and produced by Bernard Williams with Dino De Laurentiis as executive producer. It is the fifth film version of the story of the mutiny on the "Bounty". The film