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  Mutiny on the Bounty
The film concentrates on the first two volumes of the trilogy, "Mutiny on the Bounty" and "Men Against the Sea," and touches only slightly on the fate of the mutineers as they prepare to face permanent exile with their Tahitian women on the uncharted Pitcairn's Island.
Discharging her cargo at Tahiti, the Bounty was sailing for home when Christian, the second in command, led the mutinous sailors and seized the ship.
Brought to the Bounty, he is discovered to be already dead from his previous floggings, but Bligh, observing the cold letter of the regulations, insists that the corpse receive the appointed forty lashes in full view of his officers and men.
www.nytimes.com /1935/11/09/arts/mutiny-oscars.html?printpage=yes   (792 words)

  
 MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY - MEL GIBSON, ANTHONY HOPKINS, MARLON BRANDO, CHARLES LAUGHTON, CLARK GABLE, RICHARD HARRIS, ...
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) is one of the best nautical adventure films of all time and one of MGM's greatest classics.
The first dipiction of the mutiny on the Bounty was an Australian film called "In the Wake of the Bounty" and it is noteworthy as the first film to introduce Errol Flynn to movie audiences.
The second "Mutiny on the Bounty" movie was made in 1962 under the directorship of Lewis Milestone and starring Marlon Brando and Trevor Howard.
www.solarnavigator.net /mutiny_on_the_bounty.htm   (2015 words)

  
 Mutiny on the Bounty
The nature of the Bounty's voyage is laid out in the very first scene of the 1935 version, in which Christian, commanding an impressment gang, seizes six landlubbers in a tavern for service in His Majesty's Navy on the Bounty.
Although the mutiny on the Bounty is of no particular historical significance, it is noteworthy as a struggle between two men, one of whom desperately wanted to be rid of the other.
Following the mutiny aboard the Bounty, Bligh was mutinied against in 1797 while serving as the captain of the H.M.S. Director, a 64-gun ship-of-the-line, during the briefly successful fleet uprising known as the "Mutiny at the Nore." He voluntarily relinquished command but was reinstated with the crew's approval when the fleet mutiny subsided.
tarlton.law.utexas.edu /lpop/etext/jmlc/pew31.htm   (2170 words)

  
 Pitcairn Islands Study Center
In terms of mutinies it was not exceptional; as far as after-the-fact analyses are concerned, it is the most studied of all mutinies.
The incident that is most often cited as the act that set off the mutiny was Bligh's show of unusually bad temper over what he supposed was the theft of coconuts from a pile kept between two of the Bounty's guns.
Though the Bounty was on a peaceful mission which might not have led the captain to insist on the arming of the guns, he would have still followed the lookout procedure in the waters of the Friendly Islands, largely uncharted and thus uncertain as they then were.
library.puc.edu /pitcairn/bounty/mutiny.shtml   (1610 words)

  
 The Epoch Times | History Remembers... The Mutiny on the Bounty
The Bounty sailed from England on December 23, 1787 with Captain William Bligh and a crew of 45 men bound for Tahiti.
With the breadfruit plants onboard, the Bounty left for Britain but the crew grew restless after three weeks of the harsh realities of the sea life, coupled with Bligh’s ranting and raving.
But a mutiny happened to the mutineers—most likely because of jealousy over the women—and five crew members, including Christian, were killed along with all the Polynesian men.
www.theepochtimes.com /news/5-4-25/28152.html   (459 words)

  
 REELINSIDER.COM - MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY (1935)
Aside from the eventual winner in Frank Lloyd's Mutiny on the Bounty the other 11 nominees were Alice Adams, Broadway Melody of 1936, Captain Blood, David Copperfield, The Informer, Les Miserables, Lives of a Bengal Lancer, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Naughty Marietta, Ruggles of Red Gap and Top Hat.
For Mutiny on the Bounty only the cream of MGM's technical crop was used.
Mutiny on the Bounty has a richly textured look and feel that remains stunning to this day, though to a greater extent when projected instead of screened on home theater equipment.
www.reelinsider.com /mutiny.html   (1533 words)

  
 Ships used in the 1935 MGM Mutiny on the Bounty
The replicas of the H.M.S. Bounty which were used in the (1962) Mutiny on the Bounty and (1984) The Bounty were built for the films.
The replicas of H.M.S. Bounty and H.M.S. Pandora used in the 1935 MGM Gable and Laughton version of Mutiny on the Bounty were vessels with a colourful history of their own that were re-built to resemble the historical vessels in the movie.
Both vessels and their rigging appear to be in excellent condition, yet John Lyman reports in his article that:Both vessels are in rather poor condition alov and aloft now, as the paint and many of the faked fittings are succumbing to the effect of weather and the fumes of an industrial harbour.
www.winthrop.dk /bounty   (687 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) at Epinions.com
In 1789, the Royal Navy warship HMS Bounty, under the command of Captain William Bligh, was sent on a two-year long voyage to the South Seas island of Tahiti.
The Bounty mutineers were never convicted, though, since they wrecked on Pitcairn Island to start their own lives anew, while a few of the Bounty sailors stayed on Tahiti to face up to the British navy, and to a court-martial in England.
The mutiny was certainly detested and not looked upon kindly at the time it was done, and history can and has made its opinions about Fletcher Christian and his fellow mutineers.
www.epinions.com /content_219125747332   (1293 words)

  
 Mutiny on the Bounty - Leadership Case Study
Captain William Bligh's problems on the Bounty is an excellent example on how one man changed from control leadership to team unity in a matter of minutes, 200 hundred years ago.
Captain William Bligh micro managing the HMS Bounty crew and wanted everyone to know he was the boss, which was more important to him than efficiency.
After the mutiny, the mission was survival and everyone involved was totally focused on that common goal.
www.motivation-tools.com /workplace/bounty_mutiny.htm   (738 words)

  
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The Mutiny of the Bounty and the Pitcairn Islands.
Mutiny on the Bounty, with a history of the survivors on Pitcairn and elsewhere.
The Voyage of the Bounty's Launch as related in William Bligh's Despatch to the Admiralty and the Journal of John Fryer; With...
larryvoyer.com /MutinyOnTheBounty/BOUNTY.htm   (1271 words)

  
 Bounty Game: A Gothic game of life 1792.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Alternatively you may select goods to the same value from the Cowdisley Educational Site through which all the Bounty and other prints as well as miniatures or CD's can be selected or ordered on-line.
This game is not easy as you will need to learn to live in the year 1792 where there are many mazes, puzzles, gambles and dangers you will have to overcome before you can solve the ultimate mystery.
Press THE BOUNTY MYSTERY for more details or press the thumbnail for a larger view of painting opposite.
www.geocities.com /~jlhagan/A_Bounty_Game   (136 words)

  
 Mutiny on the Bounty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Mutiny on the Bounty was a mutiny aboard a British Royal Navy ship on April 28, 1789 that has been made famous by several books, films, and other media such as songs.
The Mutiny on the Bounty, involving no demands from the crew, the seizure of a ship by violence, and setting the captain and loyal crew members adrift, was extremely unusual.
A trilogy of novels, (Mutiny on the "Bounty", Men Against the Sea, and Pitcairn Island) and the movies and television shows based on it, relate fictionalized versions of the mutiny.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mutiny_on_the_Bounty_(history)   (3668 words)

  
 Mutiny on the Bounty (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mutiny on the "Bounty" is the title of the 1932 novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, based on the mutiny against Lieutenant William Bligh, commanding officer of HMAV Bounty in 1789.
It was the first of what became "The Bounty Trilogy", which continues with Men Against the Sea, and concludes with Pitcairn Island.
A first Novel Les Révoltés de la Bounty (The Mutineers of the Bounty) was published by Jules Verne in 1879.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mutiny_on_the_Bounty_(fiction)   (346 words)

  
 The Bounty, Pitcairn Island, and Fletcher Christian's Descendants
It is not surprising that the most famous of all mutinies, that of the British HMS Bounty, has become ideal fodder for popular history and legend.
Set in the paradisiacal islands of the South Seas, the mutiny involved a host of colorful characters, including the tyrannical Captain Bligh, the aristocratic Fletcher Christian (a distant relation of William Wordsworth's), numerous uninhibited Tahitian women, and a pack of sailors made up of cockney orphans and ruffian adverturers.
Living on a 1¾ square mile volcanic speck in the South Pacific that is surely one of the most isolated places on Earth, the contemporary Pitcairn Islanders still bear the surnames of the eighteenth century mutineers (Tom Christian, for example, is the great-great-great-grandson of Fletcher).
www.factmonster.com /spot/pitcairn.html   (1591 words)

  
 Deep Discount DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY is the classic tale of one of the most infamous adventures on the high seas.
Following the mutiny, Bligh and a few cronies are set onto a small dinghy after the successful muntiy, at which point the real adventure begins--Bligh s 4,000-mile journey from Tahiti to the Dutch East Indies.
A solid seagoing adventure epic with breathtaking location photography, MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY offers an unparalleled nautical authenticity--the ship photographed and the costumes worn were exact replicas of the 18th-century originals.
www.deepdiscountdvd.com /dvd.cfm?itemid=WBD065090   (165 words)

  
 Mutiny on the Bounty - the illustrated chronicles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Mutiny on the Bounty - the illustrated chronicles
Including the ten 'Bounty' paintings featured in the 'History Channel's' documentry on the 'Bounty Mutiny' first screened April, 2001; and the three paintings in the Janurary 2003 edition of the 'British Heritage' magazine.
The portraits and some selected paintings are scheduled for exhibition 'to be announced' on the west coast in CA.
www.geocities.com /~jlhagan/chronicles   (117 words)

  
 Mutiny on the HMS Bounty: Bligh, Christian, Pitcairn, Norfolk
Reaction to Mutiny on the Bounty & The Bounty Mutiny
A remnant of the HMAV Bounty, recovered from Bounty Bay off the coast of Pitcairn Island, where it was burned and sunk in 1789.
The Mutiny on the Bounty - A 1990's Scenario
www.lareau.org /bounty.html   (1889 words)

  
 HMS Bounty
She was 90 feet 10 inches long with a beam of 24 feet 4 inches and a draft of 11 feet 4 inches.
Although the Bounty may have been small for her mission, it certainly appears that no expense was spared in preparing her for the voyage: the total bill for the refitting came to £4456, more than twice the purchase price.
The Bounty was commissioned on June 8, 1787, and Lieutenant William Bligh was appointed her commander on August 16.
library.puc.edu /pitcairn/bounty/bounty.shtml   (845 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Mutiny on the Bounty: DVD: Charles Laughton,Clark Gable,Franchot Tone,Herbert Mundin,Eddie Quillan,Dudley ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The highlight of Mutiny on the Bounty is undoubtedly Charles Laughton's bracingly evil performance as Captain Bligh, a man so mean that he insists on having a dead sailor flogged.
When the Bounty finally reaches the beautiful island the crew are allowed to have some brief relaxation and many fall in love with the pretty native girls.
Mutiny on the Bounty is based on a true story.
www.amazon.com /Mutiny-Bounty-Charles-Laughton/dp/B00011D1OK   (2227 words)

  
 Mutiny On The Bounty (1935)
Mutiny on the Bounty presents a good story and it works acceptably well as a whole.
Mutiny on the Bounty appears in an aspect ratio of 1.33:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; due to those dimensions, the image has not been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
Bounty seems like an average film that may appeal to fans of the genre but that doesn’t rise to any particular heights.
dvdmg.com /mutinyonthebounty.shtml   (1330 words)

  
 Mutiny on the Bounty (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
His Majesty's Armed Vessel (HMAV) Bounty was, before her purchase on May 26, 1787 by the British Royal Navy and renaming, the collier Bethia, a coal-carrying merchant ship.
William Bligh, 33-year-old former sailing master of HMS Resolution, was appointed commanding officer of Bounty on 1787 August 16.
Of all the films portraying the mutiny, the fourth and final version is generally agreed to hold the most historical accuracy.
mutiny-on-the-bounty.kiwiki.homeip.net.cob-web.org:8888   (2517 words)

  
 Women, the 'Bounty,' the movies - film versions of 'Mutiny on the Bounty' Journal of Popular Film and Television - Find ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
From a casting point of view, one of the attractions of the Bounty story is that it allows the interplay of great character actors with handsome leading men.
Following the mutiny, the film's focus is Thigh's real-life journey by open boat 3,900 miles to the Dutch East Indies.
In the last scene of the mutineers, Christian watches the Bounty burn as he stands with his arm around his "wife," who in turn holds their swaddled child.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0412/is_n2_v23/ai_17611309   (865 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Bounty: Books: Caroline Alexander   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
When Laughton was going to Hollywood to star as Bligh, opposite Clark Gable as Fletcher Christian in the MGM film Mutiny on the Bounty, he stopped at Gieves, the famous military and naval tailor’s in London, to have his uniforms made.
While the book tells how the Bounty legend began, a chapter continuing past the deaths of the last of the Bounty crew (which ends the book) and showing how the legend reached its present state, with the Nordhoff and Hall trilogy and the several movies, would have been helpful.
Greater discussion of the voyage of the mutineers on the Bounty and their lives on Pitcairn Island would also have been good--it receives scanty coverage as is (though Alexander paints a fascinating picture of the efforts to obtain information from Alexander Smith, last of the mutineers on Pitcairn).
www.amazon.ca /Bounty-True-Story-Mutiny/dp/067003133X   (3169 words)

  
 Amazon.fr : The Bounty: The True Story of the mutiny on the Bounty: Livres en anglais: Caroline Alexander   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The mutiny in Tahiti left the mutineers scattered about the paradisiacal islands and found Bligh and 18 of his loyal crew members set adrift in a 23-foot open boat.
Commanded by William Bligh, the Bounty left England in December 1787 to transport breadfruit trees from Tahiti to the West Indies.
During the 1789 mutiny, Bligh and crew members were set adrift in an open boat and eventually returned to England.
www.amazon.fr /Bounty-True-Story-mutiny/dp/0142004693   (571 words)

  
 THE STORY OF THE ORIGINAL HMS BOUNTY
HMS Bounty sailed from Spithead, England on December 23, 1787 with Captain William Bligh and a crew of 45 men bound for Tahiti.
The surviving Bounty crewmen from the Pandora were tried by court martial in England starting on August 12, 1792.
The Log of the Bounty is in the British National Maritime Museum, and the Bounty’s chronometer (K2) is in the Royal Observatory, also in Greenwich, England.
www.lareau.org /sagaintro.htm   (3731 words)

  
 Screen Archives
Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) was a gargantuan roadshow production from the end of the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Mutiny would be Kaper's last work at the studio and a fitting musical triumph -- one of the essential works of the "roadshow" era of the Golden Age, and a classic symphonic score.
Huge musical setpieces accompany the Bounty's setting sail and ocean voyages; the crew's frolicking with the native Tahitians; the pursuit of a band of deserters; and the ship's eventual destruction.
www.screenarchives.com /fsm/detailCD.cfm?ID=313   (639 words)

  
 Mutiny on the Bounty News
Mutiny on the Bounty News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
Making their HD DVD debuts are the incomparable Casablanca, the spectacular 1962 Marlon Brando remake of Mutiny on the Bounty, and...
It may not be the Nina, Pinta or Santa Maria, but the HMS Bounty is famous in its own right.
www.topix.net /movies/mutiny-on-the-bounty   (506 words)

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