In the Wake of the Bounty

In the Wake of the Bounty
Directed byCharles Chauvel
Written byCharles Chauvel
Produced byCharles Chauvel
StarringWilliam Mayne Lynton
Errol Flynn
Narrated byArthur Greenaway
CinematographyTasman Higgins
Edited byWilliam Shepherd
Music byLionel Hart
Production
company
Expeditionary Films
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Umbrella Entertainment
Release date
  • 15 March 1933 (1933-03-15)[1]
Running time
66 mins
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
Budget£6,500[2]
Box office£7,000 (Australia)[3][4]

In the Wake of the Bounty (1933) is an Australian film directed by Charles Chauvel about the 1789 Mutiny on the Bounty. It is notable as the screen debut of Errol Flynn, playing Fletcher Christian. The film preceded MGM's more famous Mutiny on the Bounty, starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable, by two years.

  1. ^ "EXPEDITIONARY FILMS, LTD". The Sydney Morning Herald. National Library of Australia. 15 March 1933. p. 8. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
  2. ^ Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 161.
  3. ^ "Counting the Cash in Australian Films"', Everyones 12 December 1934 p 19
  4. ^ Everyones, Everyones Ltd, 1920, retrieved 30 May 2018