The Bounty with Mel Gibson: DVD Cover

    The Bounty Director: Roger Donaldson Cast: Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Edward Fox

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    • DVD Release Date: 11/21/2000
    • Original Release: 1984
    • Rating: Rated PG
    • Sales Rank: 8,217

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    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]

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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. Ed Hulse, Barnes & Noble

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    Bountyby Anonymous

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    September 25, 2006: Sexual conquest with beautiful, half-clothed naked women on the beach. Captain Bligh in this film is not the sadistic villain of past, but a more sophisticated, ambitious and sexually backward man. I love the sort of nuanced relationship between Christian and Bligh that is implied in the film. The "relationship" being of a homosexual variety. Anthony Hopkins played brilliantly the stern and cruel Bligh. Don't forget Tahiti women! Also Daniel Day Lewis and Liam Neeson as Englishman in some of their first roles? Mel Gibson was as campy as ever.

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    August 02, 2004: This film is the best and most historically acurate of the Mutiny on the Bounty films. It lays waste the myth of Capt William Bligh as a horrid orge. Bligh's trip across the Pacific with loyal officers in the Bounty's small launch is one of the greatest achievements in the anals of Naval history. The film is perfectly cast. An outstanding production by any measure and Mel Gibson's best film.