Yes it is, but many facts in the films are wrong, for instance Captain Bligh was not a bad captain. He actually had one of the lowest counts of flogging sailors in the British Navy.
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THE BOUNTY!!!!
William Bligh was the captain of the Bounty, which was the scene of a mutiny in 1789.
Biography - 1987 Captain Bligh Mutiny on the Bounty was released on: USA: 6 May 1996
St. Petersburg, Florida
Memoirs of an Invisible Man grossed $14,358,033 in the domestic market.
The Production Budget for Mutiny on The Bounty was $19,000,000.
The Mutiny of the Bounty was created on 1916-09-02.
Mutiny on The Bounty was released on 11/08/1962.
The Production Budget for Mutiny on The Bounty was $19,000,000.
THE BOUNTY!!!!
"Mutiny on the Bounty" was written by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall and first published in 1932. The novel is based on the true story of the mutiny on the HMS Bounty that occurred in 1789.
William Bligh was the captain of the Bounty, which was the scene of a mutiny in 1789.
It was called the "Bounty".
The island in "Mutiny on the Bounty" is called Tahiti.
Lord Byron did not write a poem based on the Mutiny on the Bounty. However, William Wordsworth wrote a poem called "The Mutiny on the Bounty" in 1805. It tells the story of the mutiny from the perspective of a survivor.
According to allmovie.com, there are approximately 28 feature films with "Mutiny" in the title. The best known of these are Mutiny on the Bounty (1935, 1962, and The Bounty, same characters and plot, 1984) and The Caine Mutiny (1954).
The Bounty.