| | Mutiny On The Bounty DVD (2 Customer Reviews)
| Category | Dramas DVDs, Action/Adventure Movies, Recommended Videos, Essential Cinema, True Story, High Seas | | Starring | Marlon Brando, Richard Harris, Trevor Howard, Percy Herbert, Richard Haydn, Hugh Griffith, Gordon Jackson, Noel Purcell, Duncan Lamont, Tim Seely | | Director | Lewis Milestone | | Art Director | George Davis | | Cinematographer | Robert Surtees | | Composer | Bronislaw Kaper | | Costume Designer | Moss Mabry | | Editor | John Jr. McSweeney | | Music Director | Robert Armbruster | | Producer | Aaron Rosenberg | | Production Designer | Joseph MacMillan Johnson | | Story | James Norman Hall, Charles Nordhoff | | Story Uncredited | Ben Hecht, Borden Chase, John Gay
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1787. HMS Bounty sets out on a journey that will take it through perilous seas to a tropical paradise and into history as the one of the most ill-fated vessels ever to sail for King and country. Lewis Milestone (All Quiet on the Western Front) directed this color-drenched spectacular nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Filmed before in 1935 and again in 1984's The Bounty, the gripping story centers on two men. Marlon Brando plays first officer Fletcher Christian as a dandy transformed into a man of action. Special Features include an new featurette: After the Cameras Stopped Rolling: The Journey of the Bounty; Archival Footage: 1964 New York World's Fair MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY, based on Nordhoff and Hall's factual narrative of the infamous mutiny in 1789, stars Marlon Brando as First Mate Fletcher Christian. Sailing from Portsmouth in 1787, under the tyrannical rule of Captain William Bligh (Trevor Howard), the H.M.S. Bounty begins an ill-timed voyage around Cape Horn in search of the South Pacific plant, the breadfruit. As the months wear on, Bligh's backbreaking discipline, including flogging and keelhauling as punishment for minor offenses, starts to create a powerful sense of ill-will among the crew. Eventually even Christian's aristocratic foppery begins to fade as he sympathizes with the crew's suffering. Despite the brutal winter storms that threaten to tear the ship apart, the Bounty and its battered crew manage to reach Tahiti, where they enjoy the warm sun and friendly native women while waiting for the plants to be harvested. When Bligh orders the ship home, and cuts off the crew's water ration to save the plants, Christian rebels and leads the men in a mutiny, with tragic results.
Lewis Milestone replaced Carol Reed as director on this third version of Nordhoff and Hall's classic true account of naval rebellion. The film stars Marlon Brando as the spirited Fletcher Christian and Trevor Howard as the tyrannical Captain Bligh. Their ship, the Bounty, leaves Portsmouth in 1787, on a mission to gather breadfruit in Tahiti. As the journey progresses, however, the Captain reveals a penchant for ruthlessness that turns his entire crew against him. After they leave the paradisical Tahiti, it's only a matter of time before the situation explodes.
MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY was released on November 8, 1962.
The film was shot at MGM Studios and on location in Tahiti, Pitcairn's Island, and Bora.
The replica of the Bounty, which was built by the Smith & Rhuland Shipyard for the film, was owned by Ted Turner, who later donated it to the Tall Ships Foundation.
Other screen versions of the Bounty incident are THE MUTINY OF THE BOUNTY (1916), IN THE WAKE OF BOUNTY (1933), MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY (1935), and THE BOUNTY (1984).
Some versions of the film lack the prologue and epilogue, running only 179 minutes.
Captain Donald MacIntyre, Bengt Danielson, Aurora Natua, and Leo Langomazino served as technical advisors.
Estimated budget: $18 million.
Mutiny On The Bounty Reviews: "[T]his lush technicolor epic is no washout." -- Grade: B-- Michelle Kung, Entertainment Weekly
This is the only Duncan Lamont video. Stars also making their debut in this video: Tim Seely. Mutiny On The Bounty | List Price | $26.99 (You save $4.84) | | Studio | Warner Home Video | | Orig Year | 1962 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  12275  | | CD Universe Part number | 7281332 | | Catalog number | 79197 | | Discs | 2 | | Release Date | Nov 07, 2006 | | Rating | Not Rated | | Running Time | 185 Minutes | | Additional Info | Widescreen; Dubbed; Remastered | | Movie Details | Color; Widescreen; Dubbed; Remastered |
Mutiny On The Bounty Movie Review Average Rating: (3 out of 5 stars)   A Fiasco
To call this re-telling of the 1935 cinematic classic a failure would be overly generous. It is a fiasco. In fact, it may be the worst big-budget movie ever made.
The antics that of Marlon Brando, who played Fletcher Christian, during filming have become legendary. He was often too drunk and spaced out on drugs to even read his lines from cards held up in front of him; he gained so much weight that he had to be filmed from different angles; etc. However, this movie would have a disaster even if Brando had been completely sober and maintained the same weight.
For reasons that are incompressible to me, the part of the plot leading up to the mutiny is made to hinge on the contrast that is created by depicting Fletcher Christian as an aristocratic fop and Captain Bligh as a self-made man who has risen through the ranks. To create the former persona, Brando seems to have imitated the intonations and mannerisms of Jackie Gleason’s comic character Reginald van Gleason III. After the mutiny, the overlong plot meanders formlessly to an ending that is so bathetic that it is nearly comic. Conversely, the few deliberate attempts at humor are embarrassingly unsuccessful and blatantly inappropriate.
Not one character is at all interesting; and the enactment of their interactions is as amateurish as a high school play.
The photography also is inept, especially when combining close-ups with background in the same frame.
Submitted by Steven (Johannesburg, South Africa)
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 Superb acting
Brando and Trevor Howard are superb in this film. I thoroughly enjoyed this version.
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Mutiny On The Bounty DVD Region 1
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Widescreen - 2.39
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - French
Subtitles - English, French, Spanish
Additional Release Material:
Bonus Footage
Trailers: Marlon Brando Movies Trailer Gallery
Featurette:
1. "After the Cameras Stopped Rolling: The Journey of the Bounty"
2. "Story of the HMS Bounty"
3. "Voyage of the Bounty to St. Petersburg"
4. "Tour of the Bounty"
5. "1964 New York World's Fair Promo"
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