Movies

July, 1984

Australian Director Roger Donaldson's The Bounty (Orion) asks audiences to forget nearly everything they thought they knew about the famous mutineers already celebrated in two earlier movies based on the Nordhoff and Hall semiclassic Mutiny on the Bounty. This costly remake (well, $25,000,000 or so), with an earnest, intelligent screenplay by Robert Bolt, is taken from another book that purports to stick closer to the real story of Captain Bligh and Fletcher Christian. Truth, alas, is often stod...