Talbot Jennings (1894–1985)

Brothers come home for their mother's funeral and learn that their father had been murdered.

2/4 (Indifferent).

There are some very good parts in it. But it's twenty minutes too long, characters often communicate in sermon instead of dialog, and a large amount of time is spent talking about characters that aren't in the movie.

(May 2021)

A cruel captain drives his crew to mutiny.

You wait an hour and a half for the mutiny, and the whole thing ends up lasting about five minutes, mostly in montage. And the best part of the story, Bligh's survival after being set adrift, gets even less screen time. Meanwhile, it feels like there must be at least twenty minutes worth of people saying goodbye to each other. This is not the high seas adventure I was promised.

Concept: B
Story: B
Characters: B
Dialog: B
Pacing: D
Cinematography: C
Special show more effects/design: B
Acting: B
Music: C

Enjoyment: C plus

GPA: 2.5/4 show less

2024 movie #139. 1965. The Elder boys come home to find their father shot in the back and their mother swindled out of her land. Lots of fightin', shootin', ridin' and The Duke, just what you came for when you decided to see a Western.

The Bounty sails from Britain for Tahiti to obtain a cargo of breadfruit plants. Captain Bligh is in charge and he over-zealously enforces discipline by various methods, his favorite being flogging. Bligh cuts rations and works his men so hard that even first mate Fletcher Christian finds him hard to comprehend. In Tahiti, Christian and good friend midshipman Byam become involved with native women Maimiti and Tehanni. Tahiti is paradise compared to life on the Bounty under Bligh. When the show more Bounty is loaded and sets sail to return, the harsh treatment by their Captain is too much for the crew and Christian leads a mutiny. They set Bligh and his supporters adrift on a boat and return the Bounty to Tahiti. What they did not count on is the Captain's return. (From IMDb) show less