The Bounty [videorecording] / Orion Pictures & Dino de Laurentis ; produced by Bernard Williams ; written by Robert Bolt ; directed by Roger Donaldson ; screenplay by Robert Bolt.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 10011832 | MGM Home EntertainmentLanguage: English Subtitle language: French, Spanish Publication details: Santa Monica, CA : MGM Home Entertainment, c2000.Description: 1 videodisc (130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 0792847636
- 9780792847632
- Director of photography Arthur Ibbetson ; production design, John Graysmark ; music, Vangelis.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This fourth film dramatization of the 1789 mutiny aboard the H.M.S. Bounty is based not on the familiar Nordhoff and Hall book, but on Richard Hough's novel Captain Bligh and Mr. Christian. This time, the infamous Captain Bligh (Anthony Hopkins) is as strict a disciplinarian as ever. He is, however, no monster; faced with his crew's increasing laxity after an idyllic visit to Tahiti (the search for breadfruit takes second place to limitless sex with the island girls), Bligh is forced to resort to flogging and other such means to keep his men in line. Mr. Christian (Mel Gibson), formerly Bligh's friend, is of little use to the captain, having fallen in love with a native girl himself. Christian becomes the leader of the mutiny virtually in spite of himself; and when the mutineers try to seek refuge on Tahiti, they find that the local chief wants no part of them, which is why they settle for the nearly uninhabitable Pitcairn. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Based on: Captain Bligh and Mr. Christian / Richard Hough.
Features: trailers.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1984.
Director of photography Arthur Ibbetson ; production design, John Graysmark ; music, Vangelis.
Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Edward Fox, Laurence Olivier.
A remake of the story that claims to expose "the truth behind the legend" of the Bounty mutiny. In doing so it provides a stirring and dramatic portrait of the delicately balanced friendship between Christian and Bligh.
MPAA rating: PG.
DVD; NTSC; encoded for region 1.
For private home use only.
In English (5.1 Surround) with subtitles in French and Spanish. Closed captioned.