| Mutiny on the Bounty | |
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| Directed by | Frank Lloyd |
| Written by | Talbot Jennings Jules Furthman Carey Wilson John Farrow (uncredited) |
| Based on | |
| Produced by | Frank Lloyd Irving Thalberg |
| Starring | Charles Laughton Clark Gable Franchot Tone Movita Castaneda Mamo Clark |
| Cinematography | Arthur Edeson |
| Edited by | Margaret Booth |
| Music by | Herbert Stothart |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Release date |
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Running time | 132 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| 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 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.
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- ^ 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.
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