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Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1932 novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, [1] based on the mutiny against Lieutenant William Bligh, commanding officer of the Bounty in 1789. It has been made into several films and a musical.
A musical Mutiny! played at the Piccadilly Theatre in London's West End for sixteen months from 1985. [224] It was co-written by David Essex based on the novel Mutiny on the Bounty and starred Essex as Christian. Morecambe and Wise produced a spoof "play what Ernie wrote" called Monty on the Bonty, starring Arthur Lowe as Bligh. [225]
The Bounty Trilogy is a book comprising three novels by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. It relates events prior to, during and subsequent to the Mutiny on the Bounty. The three novels, previously published separately, are:— Mutiny on the Bounty, first published 1932. Men Against the Sea, first published 1933.
James Norman Hall (22 April 1887 – 5 July 1951) was an American writer best known for The Bounty Trilogy, three historical novels he wrote with Charles Nordhoff: Mutiny on the Bounty (1932), Men Against the Sea (1934) and Pitcairn's Island (1934). [1]
The Nordhoff–Hall books were the source for both the 1935 and the 1962 MGM films, Mutiny on the Bounty. The 1984 film, The Bounty, was based on other sources, more well-researched views of the actual events of 1789 in which the mutiny results not from maltreatment by Captain Bligh but from the lure of South Pacific life for the ship's crew.
The Mutiny of the Bounty and Other Narratives public domain audiobook at LibriVox; Log of the Bounty by Lieut. Wm Bligh, 5 April 1789 – 13 Mar 1790, original logbook covering the mutiny and carried by Bligh on his subsequent boat journey to Timor. Works by William Bligh at Project Gutenberg; Works by or about William Bligh at the Internet Archive
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Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1935 American historical adventure drama film directed by Frank Lloyd and produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. [3] It dramatizes the mutiny of HMS Bounty, and is adapted from the novels Mutiny on the Bounty and Men Against the Sea by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. [4]