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The Bounty is a 1984 British epic historical drama film directed by Roger Donaldson. It depicts the voyage and mutiny of HMS Bounty, with Robert Bolt's screenplay adapting the 1972 book Captain Bligh and Mr. Christian by Richard Hough.
The Bounty: Directed by Roger Donaldson. With Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Edward Fox. Fed up with their Captain's harsh discipline, a sailing ship's crew decides to take action.
The mutiny on the Royal Navy vessel HMS Bounty occurred in the South Pacific Ocean on 28 April 1789. Disaffected crewmen, led by acting-Lieutenant Fletcher Christian, seized control of the ship from their captain, Lieutenant William Bligh, and set him and eighteen loyalists adrift in the ship's open launch.
HMS Bounty, also known as HM Armed Vessel Bounty, was a British merchant ship that the Royal Navy purchased in 1787 for a botanical mission. The ship was sent to the South Pacific Ocean under the command of William Bligh to acquire breadfruit plants and transport them to the British West Indies.
Now famous for its mutiny, the Bounty has become a big-screen legend, spawning five feature films in the 20th century alone. But the ship’s voyage, and it's...
An idyllic voyage to Tahiti in 1789 turns a crew aboard the H.M.S. Bounty against its captain when they find tropical paradise and unlimited sex. Subtitles: English. Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis Edward Fox Mel Gibson Anthony Hopkins Laurence Olivier. Directed by: Roger Donaldson.
During an expedition to Tahiti in the year of 1788 to gather breadfruit pods for commercial transplantation, a sailing ship's crew develop a taste for the easy pleasures that island life offers.
Captain Bligh (Anthony Hopkins) struggles to restore discipline among the crew of the HMS Bounty after the ship has an extended furlough in Tahiti.
Anthony Hopkins delivers a brilliant portrayal as William Bligh, the sea captain who, in 1787, steered The Bounty on a 27,000-mile voyage into danger, chaos and madness, and whose first mate (Mel Gibson) lead a legendary mutiny against him.
The Bounty is the tragedy of a doomed trip to the South Pacific. In the 1700s writer Charles Nordhoff wrote a trilogy: Men Against The Sea, The Mutiny On the Bounty and also Pitcairn's Island. These three books are more or less encapsulated in this epic voyage shot obviously, on location in the South Pacific, Bora Bora, Sandwich Islands, Tofua ...