Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film)

Mutiny on the Bounty
Theatrical release poster
Directed byFrank Lloyd
Written byTalbot Jennings
Jules Furthman
Carey Wilson
John Farrow (uncredited)
Based on
Mutiny on the Bounty
(1932 novel)
by
Produced byFrank Lloyd
Irving Thalberg
StarringCharles Laughton
Clark Gable
Franchot Tone
Movita Castaneda
Mamo Clark
CinematographyArthur Edeson
Edited byMargaret Booth
Music byHerbert Stothart
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • November 8, 1935 (1935-11-08)
Running time
132 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1,950,000[1]
Box office$4,460,000[1][2] (rentals)

Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1935 American historical adventure drama film directed by Frank Lloyd and produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.[3] It dramatizes the mutiny of the HMS Bounty, and is adapted from the novels Mutiny on the Bounty and Men Against the Sea by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall.[4] It stars Charles Laughton as William Bligh, Clark Gable as Fletcher Christian, and Franchot Tone as Roger Byam (based on Peter Heywood).

Despite historical inaccuracies, the film was a huge box office success, becoming the highest-grossing film of 1935 and one of MGM's biggest hits of the 1930s. The film was also a major critical success, and received a leading eight nominations at the 8th Academy Awards, winning Best Picture.

  1. ^ a b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
  2. ^ Mutiny on the Bounty, Overview Archived March 17, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. Movie Guy 24/7. Retrieved April 14, 2013
  3. ^ ED STOCKLY.Movies on TV this week: March 15: ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ on Freeform; Raiders of the Lost Ark and more. Los Angeles Times.
  4. ^ "AFI|Catalog". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved June 26, 2024.

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