Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1935 film starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable, and directed by Frank Lloyd based on the Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall novel Mutiny on the Bounty. The film was one of the biggest hits of its time. Although its historical accuracy has been questioned , film critics consider this adaptation to be the best cinematic work inspired by the mutiny. The movie chronicles the real-life mutiny aboard the Bounty led 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 leads Christian to mutiny. When Bligh is cast on to a longboat with others that want to join him, Midshipman Roger Byam tries to stop the mutiny, but fails. Christian leads the Bounty to Tahiti where the remaining crew live for many years. But Bligh has made it back to England and takes a ship to Tahiti.
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| Release date: | 1935 |
| Directed by: | Frank Lloyd |
| Runtime: | 132 Minutes |
| Producer: | Irving Thalberg, Frank Lloyd |
| Editor: | Margaret Booth |
| Music by: | Nat W. Finston, Bronisław Kaper, Herbert Stothart, Walter Jurmann |
| Cinematography: | Arthur Edeson |
| Screenplay by: | Jules Furthman, Talbot Jennings, Carey Wilson, Margaret Booth |
| Estimated budget: | $1,905,000 |
| Adapted from: | Mutiny on the Bounty |
| Genre: | Action |