Hi, i love the bounty story but the film has may versions and im more interested in what happened to the mutineers afterwad on pitcairn, which has no film that i know of, is there any documentaries or books detailing the subject, i know most details of it, the murders and such but would like some more background, (apart from adams do the rest have graves, is Fletchers house still there or marked, etc?
Thanks.
Fragile Paradise by Glenn Christian is a good place to start. Keep in mind, he is descended from Fletcher Christian, and in my opinion he is biased in his interpretation of events concerning Bligh and Christian.
I think Caroline Alexander's The Bounty is one of the best books about the mutiny itself.
One thing to keep in mind about the mutineers' lives on Pitcairn is that there was no contact with them until many years after the mutiny, and the stories told by the lone surviving adult male, John Adams (AKA Alexander Smith), varied between subsequent visits from American and European ships. Basically, though, the men pretty much lilled each other off. It wasn't just a matter of white vs. Polynesian, though, as there were "intrarace", as well as "interrace" murders.
Sordid activities seem to have continued on Pitcairn until the present:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitcairn_sexual_assault_trial_of_2004
After writing Mutiny on the Bounty, Nordhoff and Hall wrote two sequels: Men Against the Sea, an account of Captain Bligh's 3600-mile open vote voyage, and Pitcairn's Island, an account of what happened to Fletcher Christian and the mutineers who followed him. Both sequels, like Mutiny on the Bounty, are novels based on fact. In Pitcairn's Island, the Tahitians who accompanied the mutineers murder Christian and four other mutineers to prevent being enslaved by them. The remaining four mutineers murder the Tahitian men, and live with the Tahitian women for several years in drunken debauchery. One of the mutineers, while drunk, falls off a cliff to his death. another mutineer, having gone insane, is murdered, and a third dies of asthma. The surviving mutineer, John Adams, undergoes a religious conversion, resolving to care for the widows and orphans of the others, and becomes the benovent patriarch of the colony by the time it is rediscovered years after the mutiny.
shareIn the December 1957 issue of the National Geographic, a story of Luis Marden's expedition to Pitcairn Island was published, entitled, "I Found the Bones of the Bounty."
That article has been posted online at: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/1957/12/pitcairn-island/marden-text
On the Netflix rental the extra features included a newsreel (apparently from the time of this movie (1930's))of the island and inhabitants. Very interesting.
shareIt is sad to note that Netflix no longer offers this movie for rental, at least by DVD. Several other Oscar winners have been taken off the list as well.
The time has come for someone to put his foot down. And that foot is me.
I just rented it from Netflix the other day, perhaps it was temporarily unavailable. Keep in mind, there are thousands of movies out there on DVD. They can't be expected to keep multiple copies of every movie in existence.
My vote history: http://us.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=9354248
In the 1850s the entire population of Pitcairn was moved to Norfolk Island, a former penal colony off the east coast of Australia, Several returned to Pitcairn.
in 2004 several of the men on Pitcairn ( including a Steve Christian) were convicted of sexual crimes and imprisoned.