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Tall Ships Queen Kathleen Merryman received this fun e-mail today from Tacoma resident Michael McSweeney.
My father was the Oscar nominated film editor of Mutiny on the Bounty back in the early 60’s.
We were overjoyed when we found out that the ship, H.M.S. Bounty, was coming for the Tall Ships Festival.
The ship, and the movie, meant a great deal to my father, who died in 1999. He spent eleven months in Tahiti shooting the picture back in 1961 and we grew up hearing tales of Marlon Brando’s and Richard Harris’ antics on and off the set.
We boarded the Bounty early Sunday morning and decided it would be fun to recreate an old MGM publicity photo taken on the Bounty in 1961 of my dad with the director.Here is a picture of my son, Patrick, and I on the ship taken on July 6, 2008.
Below is the MGM Studios publicity shot of director Lewis Milestone and my dad, Jack McSweeney, sitting on the exact spot on the ship in Tahiti in 1961.
We even got Adam, a Bounty crew member, to play along.
