![]() Though director Frank Lloyd is now a forgotten figure, the two-time Oscar winner (for 1929's 'The Divine Lady' and 1933's 'Cavalcade') crafts a sweeping yet incisive portrait of life at sea, tyranny, rebellion, and retribution that won the 1935 Best Picture Academy Award and garnered seven other nominations.īased on actual events that transpired in 1787, 'Mutiny on the Bounty' combines elements from the first two novels in Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall's 'Bounty Trilogy' that chronicle the ship's fateful voyage from Portsmouth, England to the South Pacific, and the ensuing renegade incidents that forever altered the lives on board. Their crackling confrontations almost upstage the thrilling storm sequences, fight scenes, and native pageantry, all of which help lend the film its muscular feel. The virility and confidence of Clark Gable's Fletcher Christian matched against the scowling sadism and unbreakable will of Charles Laughton's Captain Bligh create a taut dramatic thread that enlivens this historical tale. One of the first great sea epics to come out of Hollywood, the original 'Mutiny on the Bounty' dazzled Depression-era audiences with its scope, action, and adventure, and it holds up mighty well today. ![]()
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