Mutiny on the Bounty (1962 film) 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 novel, the first being "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1935). It was directed by Lewis Milestone, who replaced Carol Reed early in the production schedule, and it turned
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,