Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) | |
Director(s) | Frank Lloyd |
Producer(s) | Albert Lewin (associate), Frank Lloyd, Irving Thalberg (uncredited) |
Top Genres | Action, Adventure, Drama, Film Adaptation, Historical |
Top Topics | Book-Based, Sailors / The Sea, True Story (based on) |
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Mutiny on the Bounty Overview:
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) was a Adventure - Drama Film directed by Frank Lloyd and produced by Frank Lloyd, Irving Thalberg and Albert Lewin.
The film was based on the novel of the same name written by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall published in 1932.
Academy Awards 1935 --- Ceremony Number 8 (source: AMPAS)
Award | Recipient | Result |
Best Actor | Clark Gable | Nominated |
Best Actor | Charles Laughton | Nominated |
Best Actor | Franchot Tone | Nominated |
Best Director | Frank Lloyd | Nominated |
Best Film Editing | Margaret Booth | Nominated |
Best Music - Scoring | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Music Department, Nat W. Finston, head of department (Score by Herbert S | Nominated |
Best Writing | Talbot Jennings, Jules Furthman, Carey Wilson | Nominated |
Best Art Direction | Art Direction: George W. Davis, J. McMillan Johnson; Set Decoration: Henry Grace, Hugh Hunt | Nominated |
Best Cinematography | Robert L. Surtees | Nominated |
Best Film Editing | John McSweeney, Jr. | Nominated |
Best Music - Scoring | Bronislau Kaper | Nominated |
Best Music - Song | Music by Bronislau Kaper; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster | Nominated |
Best Picture | Aaron Rosenberg, Producer | Nominated |
Best Picture | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Won |
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Mutiny on The Bounty (1935) with Gable, Laughton, and Tone
By 4 Star Film Fan on Jul 22, 2021 From 4 Star FilmsMore recently I’ve found myself straying away from period pieces and epics and not necessarily because there is something fundamentally off-putting about them. Nor do I think it can solely be blamed on my admittedly short attention span in this increasingly inane and vapid social media-fueled ... Read full article
Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
By Beatrice on Nov 1, 2017 From Flickers in TimeMutiny on the Bounty Directed by Lewis Milestone Written by Charles Lederer from the novel by Charles Norhoff and James Norman Hall 1962/USA Arcola Pictures First viewing/Netflix rental Give me the Clark Gable-Charles Laughton version any day. The story should be familiar to most of my readers. ?... Read full article
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
By Beatrice on May 2, 2013 From Flickers in TimeMutiny on the Bounty Directed by Frank Lloyd 1935/USA Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Repeat viewing #89 of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die In 1787, the HMS Bounty departs Portsmouth for Tahiti, carrying a crew largely composed of impressed sailors. ?The ship is helmed by Captain William Bligh (... Read full article
Mutiny on the Bounty (1)
By Alyson on May 29, 2011 From The Best Picture ProjectBack when I reviewed the 1962 remake of Mutiny on the Bounty, I was left with many questions about the original, mostly was the remake necessary. ?It was not. ?Not at all. The HMS Bounty is about to leave for a two year mission to Tahiti to bring back a supply of bread fruit. ?Ran by the notorious C... Read full article
Mutiny on the Bounty (2)
By Alyson on Dec 2, 2010 From The Best Picture ProjectThis is a remake of the 1935 Best Picture winner, which I have yet to see. ?Why it would need to be remade is beyond me, perhaps I?ll have an answer for that in a few months. In 1787 the Bounty is on a mission from England to Tahiti to find a plant called bread-fruit. ?It seems to be a super-food th... Read full article
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Quotes from
Captain William Bligh: Can you understand this, Mr. Byam? Discipline is the thing. A seaman's a seaman. A captain's a captain. And a midshipman, Sir Joseph or no Sir Joseph, is the lowest form of animal life in the British Navy.
Lord Hood: Have you anything to say before the sentence of this court is passed upon you?
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.
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Facts about
Clark Gable initially felt he was badly miscast as an English naval lieutenant in an historical epic. However, he later said he believed this was the best movie he had starred in.
The only film in Oscar history that had three nominees for Best Actor: Clark Gable, Charles Laughton, and Franchot Tone. Because of this, the Academy introduced a Best Supporting Actor Oscar shortly afterward to ensure this situation would not be repeated. They all lost to Victor McLaglen for The Informer, the only nominee not in this film.
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