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Mutiny on the Bounty

1935 · Film · 132 min

  • Adventure
  • Drama
  • History

Plot

Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent on revenge.

About Mutiny on the Bounty

Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1935 American historical adventure drama film directed by Frank Lloyd and produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It dramatizes the mutiny of HMS Bounty, and is adapted from the novels Mutiny on the Bounty and Men Against the Sea by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. 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. As of 2026, it is the last Best Picture winner to win in no other category.

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Cast

  • Charles LaughtonCaptaine Bligh
  • Clark GableLieutenant Fletcher Christian
  • Franchot ToneRoger Byam
  • Herbert MundinSmith
  • Eddie QuillanTommy Ellison
  • Dudley DiggesBacchus
  • Donald CrispThomas Burkitt
  • Henry StephensonJoseph Banks
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