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 (1962 film) English accent" and the direction for "looking suspiciously like a multiple hack job." "Time" wrote that the film "wanders through the hoarse platitudes of witless optimism until at last it is swamped with sentimental bilge." The film holds a rating of 72% on review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes based on 18 reviews, with an average score of 6.5/10. Given its enormously inflated budget of $19 million, the film was a box office flop, despite being the 6th highest-grossing film of 1962. It grossed only $13,680,000 domestically, earning $9.8 million in US theatrical rentals. It needed to make $30 million to