Mutiny on the Bounty (1962 film)

Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1962 historical drama film starring Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard and Richard Harris, based on the novel Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall.

In the year 1787, the Bounty sets sail from England for Tahiti under the command of captain William Bligh Trevor Howard. Her mission is to transport breadfruit to Jamaica, where hopefully it will thrive and provide a cheap source of food for the slaves.The difficult voyage gets off to a difficult start with the discovery that some cheese is missing. Bligh, the true pilferer, is accused of the theft by seaman John Mills Richard Harris, and Bligh has Mills brutally flogged for showing contempt to his superior officer, to the disgust of his patrician secondincommand, 1st Lieutenant Fletcher Christian Marlon Brando. The tone for the months to come is summarized by Blighs ominous pronouncement that cruelty with a purpose is not cruelty, it is efficiency. Aristocrat Christian is deeply offended by his ambitious captain. ........

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