Mutiny on the Bounty (1962 film) recoup its budget. The 1962 movie did not win any Oscars but was nominated for seven: The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: Mutiny on the Bounty (1962 film) Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1962 American Technicolor epic historical drama film starring Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard and Richard Harris, based on the novel "Mutiny on the Bounty" by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. The film retells the 1789 real-life mutiny aboard HMAV "Bounty" led by Fletcher Christian against the ship's captain, William Bligh. It is the second American film to be made from the
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film) the mutineers who stayed on Tahiti. At the time he was halfway around the world on a second voyage for breadfruit plants. Fletcher Christian's father had died many years before Christian's travels on board "Bounty", whereas the film shows the elder Christian at the trial. The movie was always presented as an adaptation of the Nordhoff and Hall trilogy, which already differed from the actual story of the mutiny. Bligh is depicted as a brutal, sadistic disciplinarian. Particular episodes include a keelhauling and flogging a dead man. Neither of these happened. Keelhauling was used rarely, if at all, and had