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Mutiny on the Bounty

Oscar™ Best Picture - Winning Movies

1935

Frank Lloyd

Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, Herbert Mundin ...

7.5

4,023

Adventure MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY is the classic tale of one of the most infamous adventures on the high seas. The story is based on the fictional accounts written by Charles Nortdhoff and James Norman Hall. English conscripts sailing for Tahiti buckle under the chastisements of cruel Captain William Bligh, savagely portrayed by Charles Laughton. Bligh's grotesque abuses of power, including a brutal flogging that results in the death of the sick old ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Variety	"As a production of the type that used to be known as a 'spectacle', as an example of superb screen authorship and as an exhibition of compelling histrionics, this one is Hollywood at its very best."
		Andre Sennwald The New York Times	"Grim, brutal, sturdily romantic, made out of horror and desperate courage, it is as savagely exciting and rousingly dramatic a photoplay as has come out of Hollywood in recent years."
		Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"It's tainted by a fair amount of middlebrow stuffiness, but it's a fleet piece of storytelling and serves to enshrine one of the great ham performances of all time, Charles Laughton's Captain Bligh."
		Peter Freedman Radio Times	"This may be [director Frank Lloyd]'s best movie of all (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Chris Cabin Slant	"[Lloyd] does some superb work with his performers here (...) A high-seas entertainment par excellence (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"
		James Berardinelli ReelViews	"The production values, like the acting, are of the highest standard and the movie stands up well even by 21st century standards (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"
		Todd VanDerWerff AV Club	"It’s a rousing adventure film with great performances and solid direction from Frank Lloyd."
		Adrian Turner Time Out	"An exotic and gripping piece of Hollywood mythology"

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