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(49,047 posts)fierywoman
(7,696 posts)applegrove
(118,827 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,467 posts)Treat yourself -- watch the movie.
applegrove
(118,827 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,467 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)It's Captain Bligh in the one with Marlon Brando, who plays Christian. But it's Captain Queeg in the one w/Bogart. ???
I did like the African Queen, too. That was one of Bogie's best films, IMO. There were others too, tho.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,467 posts)Captain Bligh is a character in Mutiny on the Bounty.
Captain Queeg is a character in The Caine Mutiny.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Both about a cruel, unstable captain....a mutiny...etc. I see.
Guess I need to watch it. There's a free streaming app on Roku with nothing but Bogart movies. I'll see if it's there. Thanks.
applegrove
(118,827 posts)But i looked up captain quegg just in case and saw they were different films.
whopis01
(3,524 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)I never saw Caine, so didn't know. I read about it just now in Wikipedia and saw it's fiction. I'll have to watch the movie. Can't believe I never saw it.
cannabis_flower
(3,768 posts)in high school, it was good but the next book in the series Men Against the Sea was truly impressive
Men Against the Sea follows the journey of Lieutenant William Bligh and the eighteen men set adrift in an open boat by the mutineers of the Bounty. The story is told from the perspective of Thomas Ledward, the Bounty's acting surgeon, who went into the ship's launch with Bligh. It begins after the main events described in the novel and then moves into a flashback, finishing at the starting point.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_Against_the_Sea
After five months on Tahiti, masters mate Fletcher Christian led a mutiny on board the Bounty on 28 April 1789. Eighteen mutineers set Bligh and 18 of his loyal crewmen adrift in a small boat. Bligh, however, was a skilled navigator and managed to sail them nearly 4000 miles to Timor, in the Dutch East Indies. From there, he brought his men back to England to report the mutiny, arriving 14 March 1790.
https://www.rmg.co.uk/discover/explore/william-bligh
OTOH, I couldn't finish Pitcairn's Island, the story of what happened to Fletcher Christian and the other mutaniers.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)I like documentaries, so I saw one (or more) documentaries on the Mutiny on the Bounty saga. Never read the book. Saw the movie, as I said, which lead to my watching documentaries about it.
Thanks. Those were harsh times, and a harsh way to live. But a gripping story, that to me, did not end up well for the ones I saw as the good guys.
applegrove
(118,827 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)As you will see Queeg is redeemed in the film in a way that Trump cannot be but any further hints will ruin a very subtle story with an astonishing ending.
applegrove
(118,827 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)(Preferably with ice cream) during the movie
applegrove
(118,827 posts)Lochloosa
(16,071 posts)trev
(1,480 posts)cannabis_flower
(3,768 posts)Men Against the Sea was better than Mutiny on the Bounty. It was an incredible feat of skill and luck that Bligh and the men who went with him were able to travel 4000 miles across the Pacific in an open boat. I'm sure Christian thought he wouldn't survive.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Raine
(30,541 posts)I didn't know either.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)deminks
(11,018 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)smb
(3,475 posts)AndJusticeForSome
(537 posts)Had they repeated that experiment with a can of actual strawberries rather than sand, the result would have been much different.
I'm surprised nobody mentioned it.
MoonchildCA
(1,301 posts)House of Roberts
(5,187 posts)until I got to the part with 'captain queeg'
Demovictory9
(32,479 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)...being interviewed by Mueller.
Short version:
Longer version (well worth the extra couple of minutes):
Cha
(297,763 posts)Cha
(297,763 posts)applegrove
(118,827 posts)panfluteman
(2,070 posts)Then he seems determined to take the whole country down with him. I believe that that's how those with narcissistic personality disorder think...
Poiuyt
(18,130 posts)Tom Brokaw is not prone to unkind or snarky remarks
salin
(48,955 posts)And given his decades long front seat at the news - these events are really disturbing per how off the rails Trump how now thrown American government - stability - and standing in the world.
applegrove
(118,827 posts)SunSeeker
(51,734 posts)Nitram
(22,898 posts)James48
(4,442 posts)Now nobody is watching the red button.
adVance democracy
(36 posts)Co-starring Vlad Putin as Hitler.
Liberty Belle
(9,535 posts)calimary
(81,519 posts)Strelnikov_
(7,772 posts)BlueJac
(7,838 posts)time for everyone to speak up and be Americans
UpInArms
(51,285 posts)Snokie Blobbers (Cokie Roberts) lets out a peep ...
I watched her weep when GHW Bush was defeated by Clinton ...
Sigh