The voyage gets off to a difficult start with the discovery that some cheese is missing. The government hopes the plants will thrive and provide a cheap source of food for the slaves. His mission is to collect a shipload of breadfruit saplings and transport them to Jamaica. In the year 1787, the Bounty sets sail from Britain for Tahiti under the command of Captain William Bligh ( Trevor Howard). Panned by critics, the film was a box office flop, losing more than $6 million (equivalent to $54 million in 2021). It was partly shot on location in the South Pacific. Mutiny on the Bounty was the first motion picture filmed in the Ultra Panavision 70 widescreen process. It is the second American film to be based on the novel, the first being Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), also produced by MGM. The film tells a fictionalized story of the real-life mutiny led by Fletcher Christian against William Bligh, captain of HMAV Bounty, in 1789. Driscoll, Borden Chase, John Gay, and Ben Hecht), based on the novel Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. The screenplay was written by Charles Lederer (with uncredited input from Eric Ambler, William L. 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.

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