Mutiny on the Bounty

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Mutiny on the Bounty

1962

3h 0m

Adventure

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On a sea voyage to transport breadfruit to Jamaica, English Captain Bligh (Trevor Howard) abuses his crew and officers enough to anger his 1st Lieutenant, Fletcher Christian (Marlon Brando). When they reach their destination, tensions ease and the crew luxuriates in island life until Bligh claps several men in irons for trying to desert. On the trip home, further indignities inspire Christian to stage a mutiny and set Bligh and those loyal to him afloat in a row boat.

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Derek Adams

Time Out

Feb 9, 2006

Brando makes a total mess of his English accent, the romantic interlude in Tahiti goes on endlessly, and the visuals (perhaps the main point of interest in the movie) too often resort to travelogue vistas and picture postcard lighting.

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Bosley Crowther

New York Times

May 9, 2005

3/5

...Marlon Brando makes Fletcher Christian an eccentric who dominates the entire dramatic scheme.

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Jonathan Rosenbaum

Chicago Reader

Jan 1, 2000

Hardly anyone was pleased with the results.

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Marlene Matouk

Tampa Bay Times

Jan 13, 2021

It's a gigantic, physical long movie... visually and emotionally enduring. Sign on for a spree, you won't be sorry.

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Clyde Gilmour

Maclean's Magazine

Oct 7, 2019

The panoramic color photography does ample justice to billowing sails, Tahitian scenery and gory violence afloat.

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Dwight MacDonald

Esquire Magazine

Aug 9, 2019

MGM spent some $20,000,000 on the film. They could have saved most of it and had a better picture by sticking to the Bligh-Christian conflict and omitting the Spectacular Clutter.

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Phillip S

@phillipscott Sep 13, 2026

Marlon Brando is phenomenal as the out-upon Fletcher Christian, driven to mutiny by an increasingly punitive and unfeeling captain Bligh.

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Alec B

@Alec97 May 1, 2025

A bloated and meandering mess. Each sequence is barely hiding the numerous behind the scenes tensions. Most fixate on Brando's accent (its certainly a choice!) but few point out the multiple hard cuts to him mincing around in weird little outfits even when something serious is happening.

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Gregory N

@RT36091242 Jan 25, 2025

Brando ruins the whole idea.

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Connor S

@RT33873007 Apr 3, 2024

Perhaps even better than the original, which says a lot. It's 50/50, but just as wonderful scenery, acting, and musical score all make you feel like you're on the shores of Tahiti 200+ years ago.

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anthony m

@ArgoMalle44 Feb 29, 2024

Beautifully photgraphed with Brando in top form. Thoroughly engaging saga of the sea, the three hours sails by. The story pits a foppish first mate [Brando] against a sado-masochitic captain supported by the naval code of conduct of ship's officers and their captain. On a symbolic level, the BOUNTY is the world in which absolute authority can be so oppressive that even a well-bred gentleman and officer must fight violence with violence. SPOILER ALERT! the gentleman loses.

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James B

@JamesBass Mar 28, 2023

Brando is a miscast, but the movie checks a lot of boxes.

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Synopsis

On a sea voyage to transport breadfruit to Jamaica, English Captain Bligh (Trevor Howard) abuses his crew and officers enough to anger his 1st Lieutenant, Fletcher Christian (Marlon Brando). When they reach their destination, tensions ease and the crew luxuriates in island life until Bligh claps several men in irons for trying to desert. On the trip home, further indignities inspire Christian to stage a mutiny and set Bligh and those loyal to him afloat in a row boat.

Director: Lewis Milestone, Carol Reed
Producer: Aaron Rosenberg
Screenwriter: Charles Nordhoff, James Norman Hall, Charles Lederer, Eric Ambler, Ben Hecht
Distributor: MGM/UA Home Entertainment Inc., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Production Co: Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Genre: Adventure
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 8, 1962, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 1, 2009
Runtime: 3h 0m
Sound Mix: Stereo

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