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 (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