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Clark Gable as the daring mutineer in the screen's most exciting adventure story!
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.
CinemaSerf
Jun 19, 2022 · via TMDB
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.
John Chard
Jun 20, 2020 · via TMDB
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
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Charles Laughton
Captaine Bligh
Clark Gable
Lieutenant Fletcher Christian
Franchot Tone
Roger Byam
Herbert Mundin
Smith
Eddie Quillan
Tommy Ellison
Dudley Digges
Bacchus
Donald Crisp
Thomas Burkitt
Henry Stephenson
Joseph Banks
Francis Lister
Captain Nelson
Spring Byington
Mrs. Byam
Movita
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Mamo Clark
Maimiti
Percy Waram
Coleman
David Torrence
Lord Hood
John Harrington
Mr. Purcell
Douglas Walton
Stewart
Ian Wolfe
Maggs
DeWitt Jennings
Fryer
Ivan F. Simpson
Morgan
Vernon Downing
Hayward
Marion Clayton Anderson
Mary Ellison
Stanley Fields
William Muspratt
Wallis Clark
Morrison
Crauford Kent
Lieutenant Edwards
Pat Flaherty
Churchill
Alec Craig
McCoy
Dick Winslow
Tinkler
Robert Adair
Warden (uncredited)
Harry Allen
Wherryman (uncredited)
Lionel Belmore
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Derek Blomfield
Jeremy (uncredited)
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Ray Corrigan
Able Bodied Seaman (uncredited)
Edgar Edwards
Able Bodied Seaman (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)
Hal Le Sueur
Millard (uncredited)
Robert Livingston
Lieutenant Young (uncredited)
Doris Lloyd
Cockney Moll (uncredited)
David Niven
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Vivien Oakland
Moll (uncredited)
Gil Perkins
Able Bodied Seaman (uncredited)
Satini Pualoa
Tahitian Native (uncredited)
William Stack
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Will Stanton
Portsmouth Joe (uncredited)
Lotus Thompson
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Cedric Gibbons
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