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Rating: 7.338/10 by 336 users

Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)

Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent on revenge.

Directing:
  • Frank Lloyd
  • J. Walter Ruben
  • Bill Ryan
Writing:
  • Talbot Jennings
  • Jules Furthman
  • Carey Wilson
  • Charles Nordhoff
  • James Norman Hall
  • John Farrow
  • Margaret Booth
Stars:
Release Date: Fri, Nov 22, 1935

Rating: 7.338/10 by 336 users

Alternative Title:
Rebelión a bordo - ES
Motim a Bordo - BR
Revolta na Bounty - PT
Meuterei auf der Bounty - AT
Бунтът на Баунти - BG
Vzpoura na lodi Bounty - CZ
Mytteri på Bounty - DK
Kapina laivalla - FI
Naftiki antarsia - GR
Lázadás a Bountyn - HU
Mered al Ha-Bounty - IL
Senkan Baunti-go no hanran - JP
Lázadók - HU
O Grande Motim - BR
Motín a bordo - AR
Pobuna na brodu Bounty - HR
Les révoltés du Bounty - FR
Gli ammutinati del Bounty - IT
Мятежный корабль - SU
Denizde İsyan - TR

Country:
United States of America
Language:
English

Runtime: 02 hour 12 minutes
Budget: $1,950,000
Revenue: $4,460,000

Plot Keyword: ship, mutiny, island, captain, boat, sailing, based on true story, tahiti, 18th century, tyrant, flogging, voyage, high seas, mutiny on the bounty

Charles Laughton
Captaine Bligh
Clark Gable
Lieutenant Fletcher Christian
Eddie Quillan
Tommy Ellison
Donald Crisp
Thomas Burkitt
Francis Lister
Captain Nelson
Movita
Tehani
Stanley Fields
William Muspratt
Crauford Kent
Lieutenant Edwards
Robert Adair
Warden (uncredited)
Harry Allen
Wherryman (uncredited)
Lionel Belmore
Innkeeper (uncredited)
Nadine Beresford
Ellison's Mother (uncredited)
Julie Bescos
Able-Bodied Seaman (uncredited)
Derek Blomfield
Jeremy (uncredited)
James Cagney
(uncredited)
Lucy Chavarria
Hina (uncredited)
Harry Cording
Soldier (uncredited)
Ray Corrigan
Able Bodied Seaman (uncredited)
Sam Wallace Driscoll
Michael Byrne (uncredited)
Charles Dunbar
Able Bodied Seaman (uncredited)
Edgar Edwards
Able Bodied Seaman (uncredited)
Harold Entwistle
Captain Colpoys (uncredited)
Sig Frohlich
Mutineer (uncredited)
Mary Gordon
Peddler (uncredited)
Fred Graham
Able Bodied Seaman (uncredited)
Jon Hall
Tahitian Native (uncredited)
Winter Hall
Chaplain (uncredited)
Dick Haymes
Able Bodied Seaman (uncredited)
Lilyan Irene
Moll (uncredited)
Clarke Jennings
Able-Bodied Seaman (uncredited)
Tiny Jones
Ship's Visitor (uncredited)
Stubby Kruger
Able Bodied Seaman (uncredited)
Hal Le Sueur
Millard (uncredited)
Robert Livingston
Lieutenant Young (uncredited)
Doris Lloyd
Cockney Moll (uncredited)
King Mojave
Richard Skinner (uncredited)
Charles Nauu
Tahitian Native (uncredited)
David Niven
Able Bodied Seaman (uncredited)
Vivien Oakland
Moll (uncredited)
Gil Perkins
Able Bodied Seaman (uncredited)
John Power
Hillebrandt (uncredited)
Satini Pualoa
Tahitian Native (uncredited)
William Stack
Judge Advocate (uncredited)
Will Stanton
Portsmouth Joe (uncredited)
Jack Sterling
Able Bodied Seaman (uncredited)
Lotus Thompson
Moll (uncredited)
David Thursby
McIntosh (uncredited)
Harry Warren
Able-Bodied Seaman (uncredited)
Eric Wilton
Board Captain (uncredited)
Mary Shaw
Minor Role (uncredited)

John Chard

When you're back in England with the fleet again, you'll hear the hue and cry against me. From now on they'll spell mutiny with my name. A tyrannical ships captain takes his reluctant crew on a two-year voyage that will change British maritime law forever... Directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Charles Laughton, Clark Gable and Franchot Tone, this 1935 version of the often filmed tale of the "Mutiny on the Bounty" (book by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall) is the template by which other adaptations would come to be judged. We are in safe hands from the off due to the casting of Laughton as the strutting evil peacock that is Captain Bligh, and Gable as Fletcher Christian, the handsome hero who decides enough of tyranny and raises a sailor army to usurp the tyrannical Bligh. The pic positively thrives on the characterisations, instead of giving over to fanciful sea faring shenanigans, it's more concerned with the principal players and the conflicts that said characters partake in. Based upon an actual real life instance, there's a realism factor on show as the sailors of The Bounty deal with the harsh realities of sea voyage in the 1700's, this before their captain thinks nothing of flogging an already dead shipmate!. We witness the best and worst of men at sea, this be a time where loyalty and harsh discipline were in turn expected and meted out as a course of nature. It's a tragic tale, though it's a little let down in the mid-section when the ship gets to Tahiti and it's all jolification and frivolity, which belies the harsh nature of the core beast. Yet once Laughton and Gable square up against each other, we are in the presence of greatness, mortal enemies are born and they take us to a finale that asks us the audience if it is indeed justified? 9/10

CinemaSerf

A really outstanding adaptation of this story of the tyrannical behaviour of the Royal Navy Captain Bligh (Charles Laughton) who was tasked with sailing round the world to procure breadfruit trees as cheap fodder for slaves in the Caribbean and in so doing brutalises his ill fed and thirsty crew to the point of mutiny lead by Lieutenant Christian (a very dashing Clark Gable). I found Franchot Tone a rather good looking but wooden "Byam" and Gable's accent is probably best to be glossed over but the production standards, and excellent maritime photography are proof positive of what could be done without computer animation. There is a rousing score from Herbert Stothard and a great supporting cast of professionals - especially Ian Wolfe's efforts as the odious ship's clerk "Maggs" and Herbert Mundin's rather hapless "Smith" - giving this story added depth, a soupçon of humour and lots of style as they battle the hostilities of the sea and the inhumanities of a brute. It's history, so not too much room for jeopardy with the narrative, but Laughton proves to be entirely convincing as a man never to be crossed.


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