HMS Bounty and is still displayed in the Fiji Museum in Suva), he persuaded his editors and writers to let him dive off Pitcairn Island, where the rudder had been found. Despite the warnings of one islander"Man, you gwen be dead as a hatchet!"Marden dived for several days in the dangerous swells near the island, and found the remains of the ship: a rudder pin, nails, a ships boat oarlock, fittings and a "Bounty" anchor that he raised. He subsequently met with Marlon Brando to counsel him on his role as Fletcher Christian in the 1962 film "Mutiny on the Bounty". Later
Fletcher Christian the mutineers' lives on Pitcairn. Christian was portrayed in films by: The 1935 and 1962 films are based on the 1932 novel "Mutiny on the Bounty" in which Christian is a major character and is generally portrayed positively. The authors of that novel, Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, also wrote two sequels, one of which, "Pitcairn's Island", is the story of the tragic events after the mutiny that apparently resulted in Christian's death along with other violent deaths on Pitcairn Island. (The other sequel, "Men Against the Sea", is the story of Bligh's voyage after the mutiny.) This series