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Mel Gibson
Fletcher Christian
Anthony Hopkins
Lieutenant William Bligh
Daniel Day-Lewis
John Fryer
Bernard Hill
William Cole
Phil Davis
Edward Young
Liam Neeson
Charles Churchill
Wi Kuki Kaa
King Tynah
Tevaite Vernette
Mauatua
Laurence Olivier
Admiral Hood
Edward Fox
Captain Greetham
Philip Martin Brown
John Adams
Simon Chandler
David Nelson
Malcolm Terris
Dr. John Huggan
Simon Adams
Thomas Heywood
John Sessions
John Smith
Andrew Wilde
William McCoy
Neil Morrissey
Matthew Quintal
Richard Graham
John Mills
Dexter Fletcher
Thomas Ellison
Pete Lee-Wilson
William Purcell
Jon Gadsby
John Norton
Brendan Conroy
Robert Lamb
Barry Dransfield
Blind Fiddler, Michael Byrne
Steve Fletcher
James Valentine
Jack May
Prosecuting Captain
Mary Kauila
King Tynah's Wife
Sharon Bower
Bligh's Wife
Tavana
King Tynah's Councillor

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Written by CinemaSerf on Sun Nov 05 2023

When you already have a definitive version of a story on film (1935) it's always tough to remake it successfully. To be fair to Roger Donaldson, he has managed to come pretty close - and do far better than the 1962 iteration - with this well cast telling of a story of mutiny and brutality. It's told by way of a retrospective as Lord Hood (Lord Olivier) conducts an investigation into what happened aboard the ill-fated ship. Anthony Hopkins is the disciplinarian Lt. Bligh in charge of the glorified freighter "HMS Bounty" which is charged with heading to Tahiti to secure breadfruit trees that can ...