Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)

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A Thousand Hours of Hell For One Moment of Love! See more »

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Country:

USA

Language:

English | Polynesian

Release Date:

1936 (Turkey) See more »

Also Known As:

Meuterei auf der Bounty See more »

Filming Locations:

French Polynesia See more »

Budget:

$1,950,000 (estimated)

Production Co:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) See more »

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Runtime:

132 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Trivia

Louis B. Mayer reportedly disliked the script. "Where's the romance?" was his reported complaint. Clark Gable initially objected to playing Christian but was talked into it by executive E.J. Mannix who told him he'd be "... the only guy in the picture who gets anything to do with a dame." See more »

Goofs

Continuity: When Christian orders Roger back to the mast, Morgan is helping him to sit on the bed, using both hands. In the next shot, he is a little way from Roger, touching his glass with his right hand. See more »

Quotes

[Byam enters the courtroom and sees that the midshipman's dirk on the table points toward him; he knows that he has been condemned to death]
Lord Hood: Have you anything to say before the sentence of this court is passed upon you?
[long pause]
Byam: Milord, much as I desire to live, I'm not afraid to die. Since I first sailed on the Bounty over four years ago, I've know how men can be made to suffer worse things than death, cruelly, beyond duty, beyond necessity.
[turns to Captain Bligh]
Byam: Captain Bligh, you've told your story of mutiny on the Bounty, how men plotted against you, seized your ship, cast you adrift in an open boat, a great venture in science brought to nothing, two British ships lost. But there's another story, Captain Bligh, of ten cocoanuts and two cheeses. A story of a man who robbed his seamen, cursed them, flogged them, not to punish but to break their spirit. A story of greed and tyranny, and of anger against it, of what it cost.
[turns to Lord Hood]
Byam: One man, milord, would not endure such tyranny.
[turns again to Captain Bligh]
Byam: That's why you hounded him. That's why you hate him, hate his friends. And that's why you're beaten. Fletcher Christian's still free.
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Connections

Featured in Some of the Best: Twenty-Five Years of Motion Picture Leadership (1949) See more »

Soundtracks

"Rule Britannia"
(1740) (uncredited)
Music by Thomas Augustine Arne
Words by James Thomson
Played often in the score
Sung by the crewmen See more »