The attempt to round Cape Horn fails due to harsh weather, and the ship is obliged to take the longer eastern route. The Bounty is now a tourist attraction, used for charter and excursions, based in Discovery Bay, on Lantau Island in Hong Kong.The film is set as flashbacks from the court martial at Portsmouth of Commanding Lieutenant William Bligh for the loss of HMS Bounty to mutineers, led by his friend Fletcher Christian, during its expedition to Tahiti to gather breadfruit pods for transplantation in the Caribbean.īligh sets out from Great Britain in December 1787, electing to sail the Bounty west round the tip of South America in an attempt to use the expedition to fulfill an ambition to circumnavigate the globe. Here, and further south at Gisbourne, seagoing scenes and some of the Pitcairn Island scenes were filmed.įor many years after filming, the full-sized replica was used as a tourist cruise ship at Darling Harbour, Sydney, Australia. The Bounty itself was built at Whangarei on the North Island of New Zealand. You can reach the island by ferry from Pape'ete, the Tahitian capital, a journey of about ten miles. Four sets, the landing site, the Polynesian village where Bligh meets the King, the Dutch port of Coupand in 'Timor' and the breadfruit gardens, were built here. The South Seas location is the island of Mo'orea, one of the islands of Tahiti. Now a National Trust property, Wilton is a veteran of many movies, including Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon The Madness of King George two Jane Austen adaptations – the 2005 film of Pride And Prejudice and Ang Lee’s Sense And Sensibility The Young Victoria and Ken Russell's The Music Lovers. The huge group portrait dominating one wall is of the Earl of Pembroke (owner of Wilton) and his family, claimed to be the largest Van Dyck painting in the country. Originally a Tudor manor house, it was remodelled in the 17th century by Inigo Jones. The grand interior, where Admiral Hood ( Laurence Olivier) presides, is the spectacular white and gold Double Cube Room of Wilton House, Wilton, two and a half miles west of Salisbury on the A30 in Wiltshire. The Bounty location: the court martial: Wilton House, Wilton, Wiltshire It's Chapel House, 15 Montpelier Row, south of Richmond Road to the southwest of Richmond Bridge (t ube: Richmond, rail: St Margaret’s). Built in 1721, it was once home to poet Alfred Lord Tennyson and, much later, to The Who's Pete Townsend. It’s one of the elegant terraced houses running along the western edge of Marble Hill Park. You can find the building used for Lieutenant Bligh’s home in Twickenham, Southwest London. When the ambitious plan for a vast, two-part epic failed to get finance, the project fell to Roger Donaldson, who has since directed the likes of Species and Dante’s Peak.
This revisiting of the old Mutiny on the Bounty warhorse, told in flashback from from the court martial of Captain Bligh ( Anthony Hopkins) court martial, was developed by David Lean from a script by playwright Robert Bolt (writer of A Man For All Seasons).
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