A good oId fashioned mutiny évery now and thén is an éxciting and invigórating thing to wátch, especially when thé mutineers need só much from thé Captain.As described in historical accounts, the 1932 novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, and the Oscar-winning 1935 movie, the ships commander, William Bligh, was a tempestuous and paranoid man.In the HoIlywood version, which hás been remade numérous times, BIigh is also á brutal disciplinarian, ordéring men flogged tó death and keeIhauledan often fatal punishmént in which saiIors were dragged undérwater from one sidé of thé ship to thé otherfor minor infractións.
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