In late September 1943, nearly 200 veterans of Montgomery's Eighth Army were arrested for refusing orders to join units of the US Fifth Army at the Salerno beachhead in southern Italy. Within six weeks, all but one had been found guilty of mutiny, their sentences ranging from five years' penal servitude to death. ...

Pickpocket John Jacob Turnstile is on his way to be detained at His Majesty's Pleasure when he is offered a lifeline, what seems like a freedom of sorts
- the job of personal valet to a departing naval captain. Little does he realise that it is anything but
- & by accepting the devil's bargain he will put his life in perilous danger.

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Whilst sailing between Hawaii & Tahiti in January 1824, the captain & officers of the Globe were attacked shot & dumped overboard under the direction of Samuel Comstock. George Comstock escaped & on his return he made an account of his adventures. This is based on his account. ...

Frank Lloyd's Oscar-winning film tells the story of the infamous mutiny aboard HMS Bounty. First officer Fletcher Christian (Clark Gable) & tyrannical Captain Bligh (Charles Laughton) clash over Bligh's leadership. On their way back home from Tahiti, Christian manages to commandeer the vessel from its brutal master after Bligh causes the death of the ship's doctor. The Captain & several other officers are then set adrift in an open boat whilst Christian steers the ship on a 4, 000 mile journey to the Dutch East Indies
- without losing a man. Re-made in 1962 with Marlon Brando, & also in 1984 as the 'revisionist' ' The Bounty' with Mel Gibson as Christian.
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A remake of the classic 1935 film of a voyage from Portsmouth to the South Seas by The Bounty. Animosity grows between Captain Blythe (Trevor Howard) & Fletcher Christian (Marlon Brando) during the voyage, reaching a climax when the ship arrives at the island of Tahiti. ...