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The category of Best Supporting Actor was created by the Academy as a result.Ĭharles Laughton was the star of this extraordinary cast and gave a bravura performance as Captain Bligh. They lost out to Victor McLaglen who won the Oscar for 'The Informer'. The trio of Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, and Franchot Tone set a remarkably high standard and indeed shared three Best Actor nominations between them, thus splitting the vote and ensuring that none of them won. The mainly American cast imbue this British tale with an unusual Depression-era optimism. Interestingly, 3 Hollywood stars appear in the movie, uncredited - James Cagney, David Niven and Dick Haymes. It is generally regarded as the best movie made on the mutiny. In between are a number of nominal sub-plots. He returns to England with some of the mutineers who face trial.Ĭhristian and the remainder find refuge on an isolated island. Bligh manages to find port in a remarkable demonstration of seamanship and soon returns to Tahiti to look for the mutineers. Led by Fletcher Christian (Clark Gable), the mutineers succeed in taking over the ship and they set their cruel captain and his supporters adrift in a boat and return the Bounty to Tahiti.

Set in the late 18th century when the British Empire ruled from the decks of the Royal Navy, the crew of the ship HMS Bounty, en route to Tahiti to collect breadfruit plants, mutinies after months of savage mistreatment by their sadistic Captain Bligh (Charles Laughton). Search Amazon for 'Mutiny on the Bounty' Plot Of production design and of studio moviemaking. It is still regarded today as a classicĪdventure movie and is memorable as an early pace-setter for the art Success and won the Academy Award for Best Picture with sevenįurther Award nominations. The film, which was based on real-life events in theīritish Navy of the eighteenth century, was an enormous box-office

' Mutiny on the Bounty is a rousing sea adventure movie made in 1935,ĭirected by Frank Lloyd and starring Clark Gable as SpencerĬhristian and Charles Laughton as Captain Bligh with Franchot Tone

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