HURRICANE SANDY: Film star Bounty sinks in Hurricane Sandy

HURRICANE SANDY

Film star Bounty sinks in Hurricane Sandy; one crew member dead, captain missing

 

 Marlon Brando in "Mutiny of the Bounty"

A file photo taken on July 30, 2003 shows the "HMS Bounty" sailing past the Chicago skyline as the city of Chicago hosts the largest "Tall Ship" festival ever in the Great Lakes. (AFP Photo/Jeff Haynes)

 Mutiny on the Bounty

"Mutiny on the Bounty" starring Marlon Brando  has been one of the greatest movies of the 60's. The movie received seven academy Awars nominations and three for the Gloden Globes in 1963.

1963 was the year of Award winning "To kill a mockingbird" and "Lawrence of Arabia", so "Mutiny on the Bounty" did not get any Award, but we cannot forget the Cinematography of Robert L. Surtees (The Sting, Ben Hur, The Graduate), or the set decoration of Joseph McMillan Johnson (Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz). The cast was amazing, apart from Brando, Academy Award and Golden Globe winner for "On the Waterfront", we had Richard Harris (The Count of Monte Cristo, the future Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter), Hugh Griffith (Ben-Hur), Trevor Howard(Gandhi) and Tarita Teriipia (the future third wife of Marlon Brando and Golden Globe nominated actress for "Mutiny on the Bounty"). The replica of the original Bounty was built for the movie in 1962.

Hurricane Sandy

The HMS Bounty, a 180-foot sailboat, is shown submerged in the Atlantic Ocean during Hurricane Sandy approximately 90 miles southeast of Hatteras, North Carolina in this U.S. Coast Guard handout picture taken October 29, 2012. (Source: RT.COM)

"The ship Bounty – has sunk off the North Carolina coast in Hurricane Sandy. One crew member is dead and the captain is missing after the ship failed to survive the storm. ­As the ship’s engines failed, the crew put on survival suits before abandoning the vessel as it went down in the immense waves" (Source: AP reported).

"A replica of the H.M.S. Bounty, a tall ship built for the 1962 movie “Mutiny on the Bounty” starring Marlon Brando and used in the recent “Pirates of the Caribbean” series, sank off the North Carolina coast. The Coast Guard said the 180-foot three-masted ship went down near the Outer Banks after being battered by 18-foot-high seas and thrashed by 40-m.p.h. winds. The body of one crew member, Claudene Christian, 42, was recovered. Another crew member remained missing." (Source: The New York Times - By JAMES BARRON and J. DAVID GOODMAN Published: October 30, 2012) 

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