Mutiny on the Bounty (1962 film)

Mutiny on the Bounty
Original film poster by Reynold Brown
Directed by	Lewis Milestone
Screenplay by	Charles Lederer
Based on	Mutiny on the Bounty 1932 novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
Produced by	Aaron Rosenberg
Starring	Marlon Brando Trevor Howard Richard Harris Hugh Griffith Richard Haydn Tarita
Cinematography	Robert L. Surtees
Edited by	John McSweeney Jr.
Music by	Bronisław Kaper
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	November 8, 1962 (1962-11-08)
Running time	178 minutes (UK: 185 minutes)
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$19 million or $17 million[1]
Box office	$13.6 million[2]

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, Richard Harris, Hugh Griffith, Richard Haydn and Tarita in her only role. The screenplay was written by Charles Lederer (with uncredited input from Eric Ambler, William L. Driscoll, Borden Chase, John Gay, and Ben Hecht),^[3] based on the novel Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. Bronisław Kaper composed the score.

The film tells a heavily fictionalized story of the real-life mutiny led by Fletcher Christian against William Bligh, captain of HMAV Bounty, in 1789. It is the second American film produced by MGM to be based on the novel, the first being Mutiny on the Bounty (1935).

Mutiny on the Bounty was the first motion picture filmed in the Ultra Panavision 70 widescreen process. It was partly shot on location in the South Pacific and became the most expensive film ever made (soon replaced by Cleopatra). Panned by critics, the film was a box office flop, losing more than $6 million (equivalent to $60 million in 2023).