
After 200 years, the truth behind the legend.
The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to get his men beyond the reach of British retribution, and the epic voyage of Lieutenant Bligh to get his loyalists safely to East Timor in a tiny lifeboat.
- 6.7
- 1984
- Released
- 2h 12m

Mel Gibson
Fletcher Christian
Anthony Hopkins
Lieutenant William Bligh
Daniel Day-Lewis
John Fryer
Bernard Hill
William Cole
Phil Davis
Edward Young
Liam Neeson
Charles Churchill
Wi Kuki Kaa
King Tynah
Tevaite Vernette
Mauatua
Laurence Olivier
Admiral Hood
Edward Fox
Captain Greetham
Philip Martin Brown
John Adams
Simon Chandler
David Nelson
Malcolm Terris
Dr. John Huggan
Simon Adams
Thomas Heywood
John Sessions
John Smith
Andrew Wilde
William McCoy
Neil Morrissey
Matthew Quintal
Richard Graham
John Mills
Dexter Fletcher
Thomas Ellison
Pete Lee-Wilson
William Purcell
Jon Gadsby
John Norton
Brendan Conroy
Robert Lamb
Barry Dransfield
Blind Fiddler, Michael Byrne
Steve Fletcher
James Valentine
Jack May
Prosecuting Captain
Mary Kauila
King Tynah's Wife
Sharon Bower
Bligh's Wife
Tavana
King Tynah's Councillor

Released
en
$25,000,000.00
$8,613,462.00
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Reviews

**_The most accurate and realistic version of the infamous mutiny_** The 1935 black & White version of "Mutiny on the bounty" may have won an Oscar for Best Picture at the time, but will likely strike modern viewers as dated and unrealistic. Marlon Brando's 1962 remake is the most epic, captivating and compelling version. But Mel Gibson's 1984 version, simply called "The Bounty," is the most hi

When you already have a definitive version of a story on film (1935) it's always tough to remake it successfully. To be fair to Roger Donaldson, he has managed to come pretty close - and do far better than the 1962 iteration - with this well cast telling of a story of mutiny and brutality. It's told by way of a retrospective as Lord Hood (Lord Olivier) conducts an investigation into what happened











