Based on the true story of mutiny aboard the English naval vessel HMS Bounty in the late eighteenth century. The ship is under the command of Captain Bligh who deals with the crew in a very roughshod manner. After arriving in Tahiti and discovering a paradise there, upon leaving the island the ship's second in command, Fletcher Christian leads a mutiny against the captain and casts Captain Bligh adrift in the Pacific Ocean with a few loyal crew members. The mutineers after returning to Tahiti soon find out that Bligh has survived and is giving chase. Bligh captures some of the mutineers but Christian and some followers escape to Pitcairn Island.
Based on the true story of mutiny aboard the English naval vessel HMS Bounty in the late eighteenth century. The ship is under the command of Captain Bligh who deals with the crew in a very roughshod manner. After arriving in Tahiti and discovering a paradise there, upon leaving the island the ship¡¯s second in command Fletcher Christian leads a mutiny against the captain and casts Captain Bligh adrift in the Pacific Ocean with a few loyal crew members. The mutineers after returning to Tahiti soon find out that Bligh has survived and is giving chase. Bligh captures some of the mutineers but Christian and some followers escape to Pitcairn Island.
On the morning of April 28, 1789, the crew of His Majesty's armed transport, Bounty, mutinied against the tyrranical rule of the captain. Lieutenant William Bligh, nineteen men, including the captain was set adrift in mid-ocean to face the terrible prospect of travelling three thousand, six hundred miles over the turbulent Pacific in an open, unarmed boat only twenty-three feet long. Those who placed their lives in Bligh's hands however, had absolute faith in his qualities of leadership, his indomitable will, and his skill in navigation. This account, told in the words of Thomas Ledward, the Bounty's acting surgeon is more than anything else, a monument to Captain Bligh.
A superb psychological thriller in which present-day murder has its roots in the eighteenth century and the mutiny on The Bounty Imagine an undiscovered manuscript by William Wordsworth. Imagine that manuscript relates to an unknown version of the mutiny on The Bounty in the words of Fletcher Christian.
It is night in the south seas near Tahiti, and the ship HMS Bounty has begun the long voyage home to England. But the sailors on the ship are angry men, and they have swords and guns. They pull the captain out of bed and take him up on deck. He tries to run, but a sailor holds a knife to his neck. 'Do that again, Captain Bligh, and you're a dead man!' he says. The mutiny on the Bounty happened in April, 1789. This is the true story of Captain Bligh and Fletcher Christian, and the ship that never came home to England.
