Mutiny on the Bounty
1935 film by Frank Lloyd · Released 1935
Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1935 American historical adventure drama film directed by Frank Lloyd and produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 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. 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.
Cast ages at release (1935)
- Charles Laughton, as Captain William Bligh: 35–36
- Clark Gable, as Lieutenant Fletcher Christian: 33–34
- Franchot Tone, as Midshipman Roger Byam: 29–30
- Movita Castaneda, as Tehani: 18–19
- Mamo Clark, as Maimiti: 20–21
- Donald Crisp, as Burkitt: 52–53
- Henry Stephenson, as Sir Joseph Banks: 63–64
- Spring Byington, as Mrs: 48–49
- Herbert Mundin, as John Smith: 36–37
- Eddie Quillan, as Thomas Ellison: 27–28
- Dudley Digges, as Bacchus: 55–56
- Ivan Simpson, as Morgan: 59–60
- Ian Wolfe, as Maggs: 38–39
- Charles Irwin, as Thompson: 47–48
- David Niven, as Marin physiquement apte: 24–25
- David Torrence, as Lord Hood: 70–71
- DeWitt Clarke Jennings, as Fryer: 63–64
- Douglas Walton, as Stewart: 24–25
- James Cagney, as Figurant: 35–36
- Pat Flaherty, as Churchill: 37–38
- Stanley Fields, as Muspratt: 51–52
- Francis Lister, as Captain Nelson: 35–36
- Wallis Clark, as Morrison: 52–53
- Crauford Kent, as Lt. Edwards: 53–54
- Alec Craig, as McCoy: 50–51