Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Charles Laughton: Captain Bligh
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Quotes
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Captain William Bligh : What's your name?
Seaman Thomas Ellison : Thomas Ellison, sir. Pressed into service. I've got a wife, a baby!
Captain William Bligh : I asked your name, not the history of your misfortunes.
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Captain William Bligh : Can you understand this, Mr. Byam? Discipline is the thing. A seaman's a seaman. A captain's a captain. And a midshipman, Sir Joseph or no Sir Joseph, is the lowest form of animal life in the British Navy.
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Captain William Bligh : I'll live to see you - all of you - hanging from the highest yardarm in the British fleet.
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Lt. Fletcher Christian : But the prisoner is dead sir!
Captain William Bligh : Never mind, continue with the punishment!
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Captain William Bligh : During the recent heavy weather, I've had the opportunity to watch all of you at work on deck and aloft. You don't know wood from canvas! And it seems you don't want to learn! Well, I'll have to give you a lesson
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Captain William Bligh : [before being set adrift] Mr. Christian, I give you your last chance to return to duty.
Lt. Fletcher Christian : I'll take my chance against the law. You'll take yours against the sea.
Captain William Bligh : But you're taking my ship. My ship!
Lt. Fletcher Christian : Your ship? The King's ship, you mean! And you're not fit to command it! Into the boat!
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Captain William Bligh : [in the boat] Casting me adrift 3,500 miles from a port of call. You're sending me to my doom, eh? Well, you're wrong, Christian! I'll take this boat as she floats to England, if I must! I'll live to see you, all of you, hanging from the highest yardarm in the British Fleet!
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Lt. Fletcher Christian : [after looking at the book with the supplies] Mr. Bligh, I can't sign this book. No such amounts have been issued to the men.
Captain William Bligh : You've signed with extra kegs the ship never carried.
Lt. Fletcher Christian : I have, sir.
Captain William Bligh : Then, why not? We all do it. We'd be fools if we didn't do it on a lieutenant's pay. I want to stow away enough to keep me out of the gutter when I'm too old for service.
Lt. Fletcher Christian : I understand. A captain's prerogative. Ordinarily, I wouldn't mind.
Captain William Bligh : Why is this case different?
Lt. Fletcher Christian : Because the captains I've served with before didn't starve their men. They didn't save money by buying up the stinking meat that you put aboard in Tenerife. They didn't buy yams that would sicken a pig
Captain William Bligh : [shouts] Silence!
Lt. Fletcher Christian : They didn't call their men thieves and flog them in the bone because they've complained about it.
Captain William Bligh : You impudent scoundrel! Sign that book!
Lt. Fletcher Christian : I refuse! And you have no authority that can make me.
Captain William Bligh : I haven't? I'll show you authority. Lay all hands aft! All hands aft!
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Captain William Bligh : Mr. Christian!
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Captain William Bligh : Mr. Byam, if you were loyal when Christian escaped, l would have found you DEAD!
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Bacchus : There's nothing more powerful than brandy. I threw brandy bottle overboard once-an empty one-off the coast of Madagascar. Three years later, I picked it up in a river in Portugal. It had gone back to its home vineyard for more.
Captain William Bligh : Surgeon, you would have made an excellent historian. You have a profound contempt for facts.
Bacchus : I don't despise facts, Sir, I'm indifferent to them.
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Captain William Bligh : [pointing at three sailors] You, you, you, step forward! You three are a disgrace to salt water! Ten days half rations.
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Captain William Bligh : [to Byam] Discipline's the thing. A seaman's a seaman, a captain's a captain. And a midshipman is the lowest form of animal life in the British navy.
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Smith : How far have we still to go sir?
Captain William Bligh : Don't let your mind dwell on that, lad. Think how far we have come.
Smith : We'll never see Portsmouth again sir!
Captain William Bligh : We'll see Portsmouth again. And we'll see Fletcher Christian hanging from a yardarm. And every pirate with him.
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Captain William Bligh : I'll live to see you hanging from the highest yardarm in the fleet.
Burkitt : Yardarms is it? I'll give you yardarms!
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Captain William Bligh : You mutinous dog.
Lt. Fletcher Christian : Retract that sir.
Captain William Bligh : I will repeat it - you're a mutinous dog.