The Bounty

Director: Roger Donaldson

Overview

"Roger Donaldson's The Bounty comes to DVD with a widescreen anamorphic transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 2.35:1. The English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital 5.1. Spanish and French subtitles are accessible, and the s

Product Details

Release Date:	11/21/2000
UPC:	0027616854742
Original Release:	1984
Rating:	PG
Source:	MGM (VIDEO & DVD)
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	2:10:00
Sales rank:	10,821

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Mel Gibson	Actor
Anthony Hopkins	Actor
Laurence Olivier	Admiral Hood
Edward Fox	Kapitan Greetham
Daniel Day-Lewis	Fryer
Bernard Hill	Cole
Philip Davis	Young
Liam Neeson	Churchill
Wi Kuki Kaa	King Tynah
Tevaite Vernette	Mauatua
Philip Martin Brown	Adams
Simon Chandler	Nelson
Malcolm Terris	Dr. Huggan
Simon Adams	Heywood
John Sessions	Smith
Andrew Wilde	McCoy
Neil Morrissey	Quintal
Richard Graham	Mills
Dexter Fletcher	Ellison,Valentine
Pete Lee-Wilson	Purcell
Jon Gadsby	Norton
Brendan Conroy	Lamb
Barry Dransfield	Actor
Jack May	Actor
Mary Kauila	Actor
Sharon Bower	Actor
Tavana	Actor
Vangelis	Composer

Technical Credits

Robert Bolt

Robert Bolt	Screenwriter
Dino DeLaurentiis	Executive Producer
Bernard Williams	Producer
John Stears	Special Effects

Scene Index

Side #1 --
0. Scene Selections
1. Logos/Title/Credits [3:09]
2. "Court Is Assembled" [3:23]
3. "Sail With Me!" [5:15]
4. "First Day at Sea" [6:28]
5. Gagged & Bound [4:18]
6. Bligh's Bungle [7:14]
7. Change in Command [4:34]
8. A Decent Burial [1:36]
9. "Land Ho!" [4:59]
10. King Meets Captain [4:56]
11. A Gift From the Chief [2:11]
12. "Indecent Ceremony" [4:54]
13. Love at First Sight [1:12]
14. Painful Tattoo [3:40]
15. First Desertion [3:40]
16. Double Reprimands [5:49]
17. Tender Goodbye [3:56]
18. Cruel Punishment [:43]
19. Forgive & Forget [3:28]
20. Filth & Thievery [3:35]
21. Broken Spirits [3:36]
22. Final Warning [3:26]
23. Mutiny on the Bounty [3:43]
24. Set Adrift [1:28]
25. "Row for Your Lives!" [4:47]
26. Much Needed Pep Talk [3:41]
27. Banished From Tahiti [3:44]
28. Frustrated & Starving [2:22]
29. Salvation at Last! [5:53]
30. Burning the Bounty [7:00]
31. A Reputation Restored [4:44]
32. End Credits [1:42]

Menu

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Editorial Reviews

History's most famous mutiny, previously dramatized on-screen in 1935 and 1962, was again reenacted for movie cameras in this 1984 spectacle, an intelligently written period piece with a revisionist agenda. Director Roger Donaldson (No Way Out) presents in painstaking detail the taking of the Bounty by its crew, the casting adrift of its commanding officer, and the subsequent journey of the mutineers to idyllic Pitcairn Island. In his view, though, Captain William Bligh (splendidly played by Anthony Hopkins) isn't the one-dimensional villain of previous film versions: He's stern and repressed but hardly a sadistic tyrant. Head mutineer Fletcher Christian (Mel Gibson), formerly depicted as a reluctant rebel acting solely out of principle, comes off as something of a dilettante, swayed from his duty without ample provocation. The Bounty, in addition to rehabilitating Captain Bligh's image, devotes considerable footage to his remarkable 4,000-mile journey to friendly shores and his subsequent efforts to bring Christian and his fellow conspirators to justice. Although it is not quite as rousing an adventure as the 1935 Clark Gable-Charles Laughton film, this Bounty is absorbing and elegantly appointed in the grand manner befitting the best historical dramas.