Mutiny on the Bounty (1962 film)
1962 film by Carol Reed, Lewis Milestone / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1962 American Technicolor epic historical drama film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, and Richard Harris. The screenplay was written by Charles Lederer (with uncredited input from Eric Ambler, William L. Driscoll, Borden Chase, John Gay, and Ben Hecht),[3] based on the novel Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. Bronisław Kaper composed the score.
Mutiny on the Bounty | |
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Directed by | Lewis Milestone |
Screenplay by | Charles Lederer |
Based on | Mutiny on the Bounty 1932 novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall |
Produced by | Aaron Rosenberg |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Robert L. Surtees |
Edited by | John McSweeney Jr. |
Music by | Bronisław Kaper |
Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Release date | November 8, 1962 |
Running time | 178 minutes (UK: 185 minutes) |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $19 million or $17 million[1] |
Box office | $13.6 million[2] |
The film tells a heavily fictionalized story of the real-life mutiny led by Fletcher Christian against William Bligh, captain of HMAV Bounty, in 1789. It is the second American film produced by MGM to be based on the novel, the first being Mutiny on the Bounty (1935).
Mutiny on the Bounty was the first motion picture filmed in the Ultra Panavision 70 widescreen process. It was partly shot on location in the South Pacific. Panned by critics, the film was a box office flop, losing more than $6 million (equivalent to $60 million in 2023).