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Edward Fox

Philip Martin Brown

Simon Chandler

Malcolm Terris

Simon Adams

John Sessions

Andrew Wilde

Neil Morrissey

Richard Graham

Dexter Fletcher

Pete Lee-Wilson

Jon Gadsby

Brendan Conroy

Barry Dransfield

Steve Fletcher

Jack May

Mary Kauila

Sharon Bower

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Roger Donaldson

Robert Bolt

Bernard Williams

Dino De Laurentiis

Vangelis

Tony Lawson

Debbie McWilliams

John Graysmark

Tony Reading

Louise Carrigan

Robert Cartwright

John Bloomfield

Paul Engelen

Jeanette Freeman

Victor Magnotta

Arthur Ibbetson

Richard Hough

David Tringham

John Stears

Douglas Twiddy

David Middlemas

Margaret Hilliard

Jonty Barraud

Arnold Ross

Loretta Ordewer

Michael Stevenson

Debbie Vertue

June Randall

Michael Boone

Ben Teriitehau

John Harris

Toby Phillips

John W. Mitchell

Keith Pamplin

Murray Close

Terry Gilbert

Joan Washington

Pat Howell

Terry Mellis

Craig Barwick

Neville Smallwood

Rosalind McCorquodale

Betty Glasow

Francia Smeets

Bert Hearn

Graeme Mardell

Mick Morris

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When you already have a definitive version of a story on film (1935) it's always tough to remake it successfully. To be fair to Roger Donaldson, he has managed to come pretty close - and do far better than the 1962 iteration - with this well cast telling of a story of mutiny and brutality. It's told by way of a retrospective as Lord Hood (Lord Olivier) conducts an investigation into what happened aboard the ill-fated ship. Anthony Hopkins is the disciplinarian Lt. Bligh in charge of the glorified freighter "HMS Bounty" which is charged with heading to Tahiti to secure breadfruit trees that can be used to feed the slaves by the colonies in the West Indies. His second-in-command is the no-nonsense but eminently more fair Fletcher Christian (a competent effort from Mel Gibson) and as our journey progresses, the film takes it's time to develop the gradually building toxicity of that relationship as the former man treats the crew with scant humanity. After a great many trials and tribulations, their relationship is all but shot when they arrive at their destination and we know that the writing is on the wall for Bligh. Unlike the other "Bounty" films, this one spends a bit more time presenting the epic and perilous open-boat journey undertaken by the dispossessed - the high seas, the cannibals, the shortages - and Hopkins holds that together really well. This man may have been an inhumane individual, but he was no mean sailor too. The cinematography is top drawer, well complemented by Vangelis' score and Robert Bolt's adaptation of the story that keeps the dialogue tight and potent - especially from Hopkins. Not quite Laughton and Gable, but then...

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