The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Captain Bligh will do anything to get there as fast as possible, using any means to keep up a strict discipline. When they arrive at Tahiti, it is like a paradise for the crew, something completely different than the living hell aboard the ship. On the way back to England, officer Fletcher Christian becomes the leader of a mutiny.

Marlon Brando
as First Lieutnant Fletcher Christian

Trevor Howard
as Capt. William Bligh

Richard Harris
as Seaman John Mills

Hugh Griffith
as Alexander Smith

Richard Haydn
as William Brown

Percy Herbert
as Matthew Quintal

Gordon Jackson
as Seaman Edward Birkett

Chips Rafferty
as Michael Byrne

Noel Purcell
as Seaman William McCoy

Eddie Byrne
as John Fryer
CinemaSerf
For me, this was never going to be better than the Laughton/Gable version from 1935, but despite the rather hammily over-cooked effort from Marlon Brando, it does make for a decent enough version of the story of HMS "Bounty". It's a small ship with a big task. Sail round the world to Tahiti and proc...
Wuchak
**_The most captivating and compelling version of The Bounty story_** The three versions of The Bounty story are **1.** The 1935 black & white version with Clark Gable; **2.** This 1962 Marlon Brando version; and **3.** The 1984 one with Mel Gibson, simply titled "The Bounty." The mutiny story...