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Mutiny on the Bounty

  • 19351935
  • PassedPassed
  • 2h 12m
IMDb RATING
7.7/10
23K
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POPULARITY
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Clark Gable and Mamo Clark in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
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First mate Fletcher Christian leads a revolt against his sadistic commander, Captain Bligh, in this classic seafaring adventure, based on the real-life 1789 mutiny.First mate Fletcher Christian leads a revolt against his sadistic commander, Captain Bligh, in this classic seafaring adventure, based on the real-life 1789 mutiny.First mate Fletcher Christian leads a revolt against his sadistic commander, Captain Bligh, in this classic seafaring adventure, based on the real-life 1789 mutiny.
IMDb RATING
7.7/10
23K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
1,948
5,071
  • Director
    • Frank Lloyd
  • Writers
    • Talbot Jennings(screenplay)
    • Jules Furthman(screenplay)
    • Carey Wilson(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Charles Laughton
    • Clark Gable
    • Franchot Tone
Top credits
  • Director
    • Frank Lloyd
  • Writers
    • Talbot Jennings(screenplay)
    • Jules Furthman(screenplay)
    • Carey Wilson(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Charles Laughton
    • Clark Gable
    • Franchot Tone
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 129User reviews
    • 70Critic reviews
    • 87Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Won 1 Oscar
      • 3 wins & 7 nominations total

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    Mutiny On The Bounty
    Trailer 1:43
    Mutiny On The Bounty

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    Bill Bambridge and Movita in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
    Clark Gable and Mamo Clark in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
    Movita in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
    Charles Laughton and Franchot Tone in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
    Clark Gable, Charles Laughton, and Donald Crisp in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
    Charles Laughton, Donald Crisp, and Eddie Quillan in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
    Clark Gable and Charles Laughton in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
    Clark Gable, Charles Laughton, and Ian Wolfe in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
    Clark Gable and Charles Laughton in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
    Clark Gable and Charles Laughton in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
    Clark Gable and Charles Laughton in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
    Clark Gable and Charles Laughton in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)

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    Charles Laughton
    Charles Laughton
    • Captain Bligh
    Clark Gable
    Clark Gable
    • Fletcher Christian
    Franchot Tone
    Franchot Tone
    • Roger Byam
    Herbert Mundin
    Herbert Mundin
    • Smith
    Eddie Quillan
    Eddie Quillan
    • Ellison
    Dudley Digges
    Dudley Digges
    • Bacchus
    Donald Crisp
    Donald Crisp
    • Burkitt
    Henry Stephenson
    Henry Stephenson
    • Sir Joseph Banks
    Francis Lister
    Francis Lister
    • Captain Nelson
    Spring Byington
    Spring Byington
    • Mrs. Byam
    Movita
    Movita
    • Tehani
    Mamo Clark
    Mamo Clark
    • Maimiti
    • (as Mamo)
    Byron Russell
    • Quintal
    Percy Waram
    Percy Waram
    • Coleman
    David Torrence
    David Torrence
    • Lord Hood
    John Harrington
    John Harrington
    • Mr. Purcell
    Douglas Walton
    Douglas Walton
    • Stewart
    Ian Wolfe
    Ian Wolfe
    • Maggs
    • Director
      • Frank Lloyd
    • Writers
      • Talbot Jennings(screenplay)
      • Jules Furthman(screenplay)
      • Carey Wilson(screenplay)
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      Actor James Cagney was sailing his boat off of Catalina Island, California, and passed the area where the film's crew was shooting aboard the Bounty replica. Cagney called to director Frank Lloyd, an old friend, and said that he was on vacation and could use a couple of bucks, and asked if Lloyd had any work for him. Lloyd put him into a sailor's uniform, and Cagney spent the rest of the day as an extra playing a sailor aboard the Bounty. Cagney is clearly visible near the beginning of the movie.
    • Goofs
      The portrayal of the mutiny shows loyalists and mutineers battling and killing one another on deck. This is false. When Christian took the Bounty it occurred at night where most of the crew were captured in their hammocks. The only person who struggled was Bligh himself.
    • Quotes

      [Byam enters the courtroom and sees that the midshipman's dirk on the table points toward him; he knows that he has been condemned to death]

      Lord Hood: Have you anything to say before the sentence of this court is passed upon you?

      [long pause]

      Byam: Milord, much as I desire to live, I'm not afraid to die. Since I first sailed on the Bounty over four years ago, I've know how men can be made to suffer worse things than death, cruelly, beyond duty, beyond necessity.

      [turns to Captain Bligh]

      Byam: Captain Bligh, you've told your story of mutiny on the Bounty, how men plotted against you, seized your ship, cast you adrift in an open boat, a great venture in science brought to nothing, two British ships lost. But there's another story, Captain Bligh, of ten cocoanuts and two cheeses. A story of a man who robbed his seamen, cursed them, flogged them, not to punish but to break their spirit. A story of greed and tyranny, and of anger against it, of what it cost.

      [turns to Lord Hood]

      Byam: One man, milord, would not endure such tyranny.

      [turns again to Captain Bligh]

      Byam: That's why you hounded him. That's why you hate him, hate his friends. And that's why you're beaten. Fletcher Christian's still free.

      [back to Lord Hood]

      Byam: Christian lost, too, milord. God knows he's judged himself more harshly than you could judge him.

      [turns to Fletcher Christian's father]

      Byam: I say to his father, "He was my friend. No finer man ever lived."

      [addresses the court again]

      Byam: I don't try to justify his crime, his mutiny, but I condemn the tyranny that drove 'im to it. I don't speak here for myself alone or for these men you condemn. I speak in their names, in Fletcher Christian's name, for all men at sea. These men don't ask for comfort. They don't ask for safety. If they could speak to you they'd say, "Let us choose to do our duty willingly, not the choice of a slave, but the choice of free Englishmen." They ask only the freedom that England expects for every man. If one man among you believe that - *one man* - he could command the fleets of England, He could sweep the seas for England. If he called his men to their duty not by flaying their backs, but by lifting their hearts... their... That's all.

    • Alternate versions
      Also available in a computer colorized version.
    • Connections
      Edited into The Extraordinary Seaman (1969)
    • Soundtracks
      Love Song of Tahiti
      (1935) (uncredited)

      Music by Bronislau Kaper & Walter Jurmann

      Lyrics by Gus Kahn

    User reviews129

    Review
    Top review
    Strong Best Picture Winner of 1935.
    Clark Gable and Franchot Tone received Oscar nominations in this excellent early Best Picture winner. But it is Charles Laughton (also Oscar-nominated) who gives his greatest performance as the captain who is harsh, strict and unforgiving. However, his true skills are shown when he is thrown off the ship, but never gives up and returns to safety in a small boat with limited men and supplies. The primary actors are solid and the shooting locales are breath-taking. Frank Lloyd's direction lifts a somewhat questionable screenplay to safer waters and the film turns into a Hollywood classic by its final act. 5 stars out of 5.
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    • May 6, 2002

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    Details

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    • Release date
      • January 12, 1936 (Brazil)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official site
      • Official site
    • Languages
      • English
      • Polynesian
    • Also known as
      • Motín a bordo
    • Filming locations
      • Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA
    • Production company
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
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    • Budget
      • $1,950,000 (estimated)
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      2 hours 12 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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