Mutiny on the Bounty (1962 film) Christian's life on Pitcairn Island. In the 1950s MGM remade a number of their earlier successes in colour and widescreen. They decided to film "Mutiny on the Bounty". In 1958 it was announced Aaron Rosenberg would produce the film and Marlon Brando was mentioned as a possible star Eric Ambler was signed to write a script. It was intended to combine material from the Nordhoff and Hall novels "Mutiny on the Bounty" and "Pitcairn Island" (MGM also owned the rights to a third book, "Men Against the Sea", which dealt with Bligh's boat voyage after the mutiny). In 1959 it
Mutiny on the Bounty unfortunate in his timing: The story of the mutiny became public knowledge when the Romantic poets first commanded the literary scene. Bligh's chief apologist was Sir Joseph Banks, while Christian was championed by Wordsworth and Coleridge. Among historians' attempts to portray Bligh more sympathetically are those of Richard Hough (1972) and Caroline Alexander (2003). Hough depicts ""an unsurpassed foul-weather commander ... I would go through hell and high water with him, but not for one day in the same ship on a calm sea"". Alexander presents Bligh as over-anxious, solicitous of his crew's well-being, and utterly devoted to his task,