HMS Bounty table below. Four were detained against their will on the "Bounty" for their needed skills and for lack of space on the long boat. The mutineers first returned to Tahiti, where most of the survivors were later captured by the "Pandora" and taken to England for trial. Nine mutineers continued their flight from the law and eventually settled Pitcairn Island, where all but one died before their fate became known to the outside world. Luis Marden discovered the remains of the "Bounty" in January 1957. After spotting remains of the rudder (which had been found in 1933 by Parkin Christian,
The Mutiny of the Bounty received good reviews and was a success at the box office. When the film was released in Sydney, it was endorsed by the education department and 2,000 school children attending the initial screening. One reviewer described it as the best Australian film ever made. Lottie Lyell later supervised a recut of the film for the British market. The Mutiny of the Bounty The Mutiny of the Bounty is a 1916 Australian-New Zealand silent film directed by Raymond Longford about the mutiny aboard . It is the first known cinematic dramatisation of this story and is considered a lost film. The