Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film)
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Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1935 film starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable based on the Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall novel Mutiny on the "Bounty". David Niven and James Cagney also have bit parts in the movie.
The movie chronicles the real-life mutiny aboard the HMAV Bounty lead by Fletcher Christian against the ship's captain, William Bligh. Like the novel, it portrays Captain Bligh as an abusive villain whose cruelty towards the crew and most of the officers lead Christian to mutiny. It contains scenes of the trials of those who had been put off the ship on the launch. It also deals with the aftermath.
The film was one of the biggest hits of its time and remains a classic today, and by far the best film based on the mutiny. A 1962 three-hours-plus widescreen Technicolor remake, starring Marlon Brando as Fletcher Christian and Trevor Howard as Captain Bligh, became notorious when Brando reportedly practically took over the film even to the point of rewriting and adding scenes for himself, and was a disaster both critically and financially at the time, but has come to be reevaluated by critics over the decades. In 1984, Mel Gibson played Christian opposite Anthony Hopkins as Bligh in a lavish remake called The Bounty. Most surprisingly, Errol Flynn's first movie role was as Christian in an Australian production called In the Wake of the Bounty in 1933, before Flynn came to America.
Awards and nominations
Mutiny on the Bounty won an Oscar for Best Picture for its producers, Irving Thalberg and Albert Lewin, it also received seven additional nominations:- Best Actor in a Leading Role -
- * Clark Gable
- * Charles Laughton
- * Franchot Tone
- Best Director - Frank Lloyd
- Best Film Editing - Margaret Booth
- Best Music, Score - Nat W. Finston (head of department) and Herbert Stothart ("Love Song of Tahiti" written by Walter Jurmann, uncredited)
- Best Writing, Screenplay - Jules Furthman, Talbot Jennings and Carey Wilson
- This film is, as of 2006, the last Best Picture winner to win in no other category.
Historical Inaccuracies
The movie does contain a few historical inaccuracies. Captain Bligh was never on board HMS Pandora, nor was he present at the trial of the mutineers who stayed on Tahiti. At the time he was halfway around the world on a second voyage for breadfruit plants. Fletcher Christian's father had died many years before Christian's travels on board the Bounty - the movie shows the elder Christian at the trial. It should be noted though, that the movie was always presented as an adaptation of the Nordhoff and Hall trilogy, which already differed from the actual story of the mutiny.External link
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