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Mutiny on the Bounty
August 18, 2019 @ 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
$10
UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Hugh M. Hefner Classic American Film Program present
Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
Directed by Lewis Milestone and Carol Reed
Runaway productions carried the risk of runaway costs. That was the case for this retelling of the HMS Bounty crew’s mutiny against the tyrannical rule of Captain Bligh, led by Fletcher Christian (played as an offbeat fop by Marlon Brando). Deemed a failure by the box office and history books, the film’s reputation was sunk early on by stories of budget overruns, weather problems, and Brando’s on-set antics. Today, the picture embodies the extravagant spectacle of Hollywood’s postwar global ventures with bold location shooting in French Polynesia, where thousands of Tahitians worked in front of and behind the camera.
Director: Lewis Milestone, Carol Reed. Screenwriter: Charles Lederer, Eric Ambler, William L. Driscoll, Borden Chase, John Gay. Cast: Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris
35mm, color, 179 min.
In person: Introduction by Daniel Steinhard, author of Runaway Hollywood
FREE admission for all UCLA students with valid I.D.
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