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Mutiny on the Bounty

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The Bounty

Original title

Mutiny on the Bounty

Year

1962

Running time

178 min.

Country

United States

Director

Lewis Milestone

Screenwriter

Charles Lederer. Novel: Charles Nordhoff, James Norman Hall

Cast

Music

Bronislau Kaper

Cinematography

Robert Surtees

Producer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Genre

Adventure | Sea Adventures. 18th Century. Remake. Based on a true story

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The Bounty

Synopsis

The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Captain Bligh will do anything to get there as fast as possible, using any means to keep up a strict discipline. When they arrive at Tahiti, it is like a paradise for the crew, something completely different than the living hell on the ship. On the way back to England, officer Fletcher Christian becomes the leader of a mutiny.

Rankings Position

#41 Best Remakes in the history of film
#62 Best Movies Based on a True Story
#98 Best Adventure Movies

Awards: 1962: 7 Nominations for Oscar, including Movie, Editing, Cinematography color

1962: Golden Globes: 3 Nominations, including Best Film - Drama

1962: Directors Guild of America (DGA): Nominated for Best Director

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"Brando rocks the boat with his dodgy accent and lowers the tone as history gets rewritten as vanity project. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"

Will Lawrence: Empire
"Brando makes a total mess of his English accent, the romantic interlude in Tahiti goes on endlessly, and the visuals too often resort to travelogue vistas and picture postcard lighting."

Time Out
"It may be somewhat short of genuine dramatic greatness, but it is often overwhelmingly spectacular"

Variety Staff: Variety
"This three-hour 1962 remake of the Charles Laughton-Clark Gable MGM classic was the first production in which Marlon Brando really ran amok (....) Hardly anyone was pleased with the results."

Jonathan Rosenbaum: Chicago Reader
"It's obvious that director Milestone could not control Brando for a moment and that the famous, sometimes brilliant actor directed himself. His is one of the most impossible performances in screen history,"

TV Guide
"Has its ups and downs. Bronislau Kaper has provided a highly chromatic musical score that is consistent with the size, the sweeping romance and the eventual lumpishness of this film."

Bosley Crowther: The New York Times
"Watching the film now, it seems like a bit of an anachronism. The story may be set in 1789, but the style and tone of the film is pure 1962. They simply don't make films like this anymore."

Cindy White: IGN

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