MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY

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• Release Year: 1935
• Genre: Adventure, Drama
• Plot: 'Just about the perfect adventure picture. Savagely exciting and rousingly dramatic.: - Andre Sennwald, THE NEW YORK TIMES; ; HMS Bounty sails for Tahiti by way of Cape Horn...and into movie lore as an American Film Institute Top-100 American Films selection. Grandly filmed, Mutiny on the Bounty captured the 1935 Best Picture Academy Award and eight nominations total. Charles Laughton portrays Captain Bligh, a seafaring monster ruling with the law of fear.; ; Solidifying his status as Hollywood's #1 male star, Clark Gable is first officer Fletcher Christian, whose will to obey erodes under Bligh's tyranny. And Franchot Tone plays idealistic midshipman Byam, torn by his allegiance to both. That all three portrayals are vividly memorable is accented by the fact that for the only time in Oscar history, three stars from the same film were Best Actor nominees.
• Cast: Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, Herbert Mundin, Eddie Quillan, Dudley Digges, Donald Crisp, Henry Stephenson, Francis Lister, Spring Byington, Movita, Mamo Clark, Byron Russell, Percy Waram, David Torrence, John Harrington, Douglas Walton, Ian Wolfe, DeWitt Jennings, Ivan F. Simpson, Vernon Downing, Bill Bambridge, Marion Clayton Anderson, Stanley Fields, Wallis Clark, Crauford Kent, Pat Flaherty, Alec Craig, Charles Irwin, Dick Winslow, Robert Adair, Harry Allen, Lionel Belmore, Nadine Beresford, Julie Bescos, James Cagney, Lucy Chavarria, Harry Cording, Ray Corrigan, Sam Wallace Driscoll, Charles Dunbar, Edgar Edwards, Harold Entwistle, Sig Frohlich, Mary Gordon, Fred Graham, Winter Hall, Dick Haymes, Lilyan Irene, Clarke Jennings, Tiny Jones, Stubby Kruger, Hal Le Sueur, Robert Livingston, Doris Lloyd, King Mojave, Charles Nauu, David Niven, Vivien Oakland, Gil Perkins, John Power, Satini Pualoa, William Stack, Will Stanton, Jack Sterling, Lotus Thompson, David Thursby, Harry Warren, Eric Wilton, Frank Lloyd, Talbot Jennings, Jules Furthman, Carey Wilson, Charles Nordhoff, James Norman Hall, Margaret Booth
• Director: Frank Lloyd
• Runtime: 2:12
• Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
• Media Format: Movie