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9 unusual facts about Mutiny on the Bounty


Aqua drama

In 1823 Sadler’s Wells presented the aqua drama entitled The Island or Christian and His Comrades which dramatized the main events of the Mutiny on board HMS Bounty.

Cyril Walsh

In 1926, he won the T E Rofe Prize, worth £ 6, for the best history essay in the state, writing on the Mutiny on the Bounty.

Daphne Moon

In the episode "An Affair to Forget" she mentions she had an ancestor who served on HMS Bounty who took Fletcher Christian's side in the mutiny.

In the Wake of the Bounty

The film preceded MGM's more famous Mutiny on the Bounty, starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable, by two years.

The film mixed re-enactments with documentary, and focused not so much on the mutiny itself as on its consequences.

John Quintal

A direct descendant of Bounty mutineer Matthew Quintal, he is believed to have been the first such person to enter an Australian parliament.

Malcolm Champion

His mother, Sarah Clara Quintal, descended from the Bounty mutineer Matthew Quintal.

Owen Rutter

He was also the author of works on Captain William Bligh and the Mutiny on the Bounty.

Robert Dean Frisbie

In Tahiti, Frisbie (dubbed: “Ropati,” a phonetic approximation of “Robert” en: Writer) met Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, well-known co-authors of the Mutiny on the Bounty series.


David Cordingly

David Cordingly organised several exhibitions at the National Maritime Museum, including Captain James Cook, Navigator and The Mutiny on the Bounty.

Lonely Are the Brave

The Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA gave the film a "Golden Reel Award" for "Best Sound Editing" (Waldon O. Watson, Frank H. Wilkinson, James R. Alexander, James Curtis, Arthur B. Smith), in a tie with Mutiny on the Bounty.

Lost and Found: The Story of Cook's Anchor

Whilst scouting for locations to film a movie in Tahiti about the mutiny on the HMS Bounty, David Lean is notified that his property master, Eddie Fowlie, had discovered an anchor at the bottom of the sea which had belonged to Captain Cook.

Pitkern language

Following the Mutiny on the Bounty, the British mutineers stopped at Tahiti and took 18 Polynesian people, mostly women, to the remote island of Pitcairn and settled there with them.

Robert H. Justman

Justman's motion picture credits as an assistant director included The Big Combo (1955), Kiss Me Deadly (1955), The Big Knife (1955), Attack (1956), and Mutiny on the Bounty (1962).

Tarita Teriipaia

Born in Bora Bora, French Polynesia, she played Maimiti opposite Marlon Brando in the film Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress, and became Brando's third wife in 1962.

Thomas Earnshaw

The first expedition was with HMS Bounty which had ended in the infamous mutiny led by Fletcher Christian and from which Bligh returned to England only with the greatest of difficulties.

Wallis Clark

Five of these films won Best Picture: It Happened One Night (1934), Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), The Great Ziegfeld (1936), You Can't Take It with You (1938), and Gone with the Wind (1939).


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