Mutiny on the Bounty

Director: Frank Lloyd Frank Lloyd

Overview

"Frank Lloyd's 1935 adventure Mutiny on the Bounty comes to DVD for the first time from Warner Home Video. The film is presented with a standard full-frame transfer. Mono soundtracks are available in English and French. Optional subtitles are available in English, Spanish, and French. Closed captions are also accessible. The disc includes the 1935 MGM short Pitcairn Island Today. Other special features include theatrical trailers and newsreel footage of Mutiny on the Bounty winning Best Picture in 1935. This is a highly recommended disc for a historically important film."

Product Details

Release Date:	02/03/2004
UPC:	0012569509023
Original Release:	1935
Rating:	NR
Source:	STUDIO DISTRIBUTION SERVS LLC
Region Code:	1
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono]
Language:	English
Time:	2:12:00
Sales rank:	5,573

Special Features

Pitcairn Island Today" vintage documentary; Academy Award newsreel; Theatrical trailers of this and the 1962 remake

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Charles Laughton	Bligh
Clark Gable	Christian
Franchot Tone	Byam
Herbert Mundin	Smith
Eddie Quillan	Ellison
Dudley Digges	Bacchus
Donald Crisp	Burkitt
Henry Stephenson	Sir Joseph Banks
Francis Lister	Kapitan Nelson
Spring Byington	Pani Byam
Mamo Clark	Maimiti,Morrison
Ian Wolfe	Maggs
Ivan Simpson	Morgan,Actor
DeWitt Jennings	Fryer
Stanley Fields	Muspratt
Vernon Downing	Hayward
Dick Winslow	Tinkler
Byron Russell	Quintal
Percy Waram	Coleman
David Torrence	Lord Hood
John Harrington	Pan Purcell
Robert Livingston	Actor
Douglas Walton	Actor
Alec Craig	Actor
Doris Lloyd	Actor
Eric Wilton	Actor
Lionel Belmore	Actor
Nadine Beresford	Actor
Marion Clayton	Actor
Mary Gordon	Actor
Winter Hall	Actor
James Cagney	Actor
David Niven	Actor
Charles Nauu	Actor
Sam Wallace Driscoll	Actor
Hal Le Sueur	Actor
William Bambridge	Actor
David Thursby	Actor
Crauford Kent	Actor
Pat Flaherty	Actor
Charles Irwin	Actor
John Powers	Actor
King Mojave	Actor
William Stack	Actor
Harold Entwistle	Actor
Will Stanton	Actor
Harry Cording	Actor
Movita	Tehanni
Marion Clayton Anderson	Mary Ellison
Herbert Stothart	Composer

Technical Credits

Jules Furthman

Talbot Jennings

Carey Wilson

Charles Nordhoff

James Norman Hall

Margaret Booth

John Farrow

Frank Lloyd	Director
Jules Furthman	Screenwriter
Talbot Jennings	Screenwriter
Carey Wilson	Screenwriter
Irving Thalberg	Producer
Charles Nordhoff	Screenwriter
James Norman Hall	Screenwriter
Margaret Booth	Screenwriter
John Farrow	Screenwriter
Douglas Shearer	Sound Effects
William Steinkamp	Sound Effects

Editorial Reviews

Mutiny on the Bounty represents the height of MGM filmmaking during the Irving Thalberg era. Filming on location in Tahiti, the studio spent $2 million in production costs, an astounding sum for 1935. Thalberg's boss, Louis B. Mayer, opposed the film, but the production chief prevailed, insisting that the public was fascinated by cruelty. Indeed, Charles Laughton's Captain Bligh is among the screen's most despicable villains, never mind that the historic Captain Bligh was a substantially more complex person, and the heroic Fletcher Christian (Clark Gable) of the film is hardly the Fletcher Christian of history who kidnapped Tahitian natives and forced them to work as slaves for his mutineers. Mutiny on the Bounty holds up well as a grand tale of adventure, beautifully filmed, with charismatic lead performances and the quality of production that made Thalberg's work legendary. It is a rarity in Academy Awards history: a Best Picture winner that won only that one Oscar. The bigger winner for the night was John Ford's The Informer, which took four Oscars, all at Bounty's expense. Yet, as is common in Academy history, Bounty, a bigger box-office blockbuster, won the top award.