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The Bounty   1984         PG, 130 min. Genre: Adventure / Drama Director: Roger Donaldson   Cast: Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Edward Fox, Daniel Day-Lewis, Bernard Hill, Philip Davis, Liam Neeson, Wi Kuki Kaa, Tevaite Vernette, Philip Martin Brown, Simon Chandler, Malcolm Terris, Simon Adams, John Sessions   In this remake of the Clark Gable classic "Mutiny on the Bounty," Mel Gibson portrays seaman Fletcher Christian with Anthony Hopkins as a strict, but this time more humane, Captain Bligh. Bligh's cruelty, which includes flogging, results in a mutiny led by Fletcher Christian as they sail around Cape Horn. After the mutiny, they seek refuge on Tahiti where even more problems lie ahead. Cast Mel Gibson Fletcher Christian Anthony Hopkins Lt. William Bligh Laurence Olivier Admiral Hood Edward Fox Captain Greetham Daniel Day-Lewis John Fryer Bernard Hill William Cole Philip Davis Edward Young Liam Neeson Seaman Charles Churchill Wi Kuki Kaa King Tynah Tevaite Vernette Mauatua Philip Martin Brown Seaman John Adams Simon Chandler David Nelson Malcolm Terris Dr. John Huggan Simon Adams Thomas Heywood John Sessions John Smith