"[to Sonny] What am I doing apologizin' to you? Why am I always apologizin' to you, ya little bastard? Three months I been apologizing to you, without you even bein' here. I haven't done anything wrong - why can't I quit apologizin'? You're the one oughta be sorry. I wouldn't still be in my bathrobe if it hadn't been for you. I'da had my clothes on hours ago. You're the one made me quit carin' if I got dressed or not. I guess just because your friend got killed you want me to forget what you did and make it all right. I'm not sorry for you. You'd've left Billy, too, just like you left me. I bet you left him plenty a nights, whenever Jacy whistled. I wouldn't treat a dog that way. I guess you thought I was so old and ugly you didn't owe me any explanation. You didn't need to be careful of me. There wasn't anythin' I could do about you and her - why should you be careful of me? You didn't love me. Look at me. Can't you even look at me? Y'see? You shouldn't have come here. I'm around that corner now. You've ruined it and it's lost completely. Just your needing me won't make it come back. [pause] Never you mind, honey, never you mind."

"Tim Seely - Midshipman Edward 'Ned' Young"

"Gordon Jackson - Seaman Edward Birkett"

"Duncan Lamont - John Williams"

"Percy Herbert - Matthew Quintal"

"Tarita - Maimiti"

"Richard Haydn - William Brown"

"Hugh Griffith - Alexander Smith"

"Richard Harris - Seaman John Mills"

"Trevor Howard - Capt. William Bligh"

"Marlon Brando - 1st Lt. Fletcher Christian"

"The greatest adventure ever lived becomes the greatest adventure ever filmed!"

"TRUE...TURBULENT...TREMENDOUS!"

"The mightiest excitement that ever swept across the sea or the screen!"

"Court-martial Judge: The court considers it has obligation to add comment to its verdict. By the force of evidentiary conclusions you, Captain William Bligh, stand absolved of military misdeed. Yet, officers of stainless record and seamen voluntarily all were moved to mutiny against you. Your methods, so far as this court can discern, show what we shall cautiously term an excess of zeal. We cannot condemn zeal. We cannot rebuke an officer who has administered discipline according to the articles of war but the articles are fallible, as any articles are bound to be. No code can cover all contingencies. We cannot put justice aboard our ships in books. Justice and decency are carried in the heart of the captain, or they be not aboard. It is for this reason that the Admiralty has always sought to appoint its officers from the ranks of gentlemen. The court regrets to note that the appointment of Captain William Bligh was, in that respect, a failure."

"John Mills: There's no chance for people like us to go back to England, give Bligh a bad name and walk free men ourselves. And anyone who thinks otherwise hasn't got the sense that God gave geese."

"[to Captain Bligh] But I assure you, sir, that the execution of my duties is entirely unaffected by my private opinion of you."

"We need only persuade the British people of something they already know - that inhumanity is its poorest servant."

"The King's navy will not rest until every mutineer is captured and executed. Wherever you go, wherever you hide a thousand ships will search you out."

"I'm not leaving you Mr Christian, not ever. Go to the dirtiest little corner of the world I'll be there, right behind you, with a rope in my hand."

"While our mission remains unfulfilled I'm not in any port, Mr Fryer, I'm in command - where you may find one day - it's always lonely. You see, command allows no intimacies. You can hardly expect unquestioning obedience from last night's partner in a debauch."

"Midshipmen - be a dull navy without them. Now get that slut off my ship."

"It is a matter of super-natural indifference to me, whether you contaminate the natives or the natives contaminate you. I have but one concern - our mission. Let any one of you provoke an incident which endangers it and I shall cause that man to curse his mother for giving him birth."

"Now don't mistake me. I'm not advising cruelty or brutality with no purpose. My point is that cruelty with purpose is not cruelty - it's efficiency. Then a man will never disobey once he's watched his mate's backbone laid bare. He'll see the flesh jump, hear the whistle of the whip for the rest of his life."

"Lucy, you decent? Lucy, are you dec---? [reflectively musing to himself] I guess she was."

"[to Lucy] Something is happening to me. I find myself talking to you like I never talked to anyone before—not even Mitch...I think we're past the point of no return."

"Edward Platt - Dr. Paul Cochrane"

"Robert J. Wilke - Dan Willis"

"Grant Williams - Biff Miley"

"Harry Shannon - Hoak Wayne"

"Robert Keith - Jasper Hadley"

"Dorothy Malone - Marylee Hadley"

"Robert Stack - Kyle Hadley"

"Lauren Bacall - Lucy Moore Hadley"

"Rock Hudson - Mitch Wayne"

"This woman in his arms was now the wife of the man he called his best friend!"