
Midshipman Roger Byam joins Captain Bligh and Fletcher Christian aboard HMS Bounty for a voyage to Tahiti. Bligh proves to be a brutal tyrant and, after six pleasant months on Tahiti, Christian leads the crew to mutiny on the homeward voyage. Even though Byam takes no part in the mutiny, he must defend himself against charges that he supported Christian.... (Full plot summary below)
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Midshipman Roger Byam joins Captain Bligh and Fletcher Christian aboard HMS Bounty for a voyage to Tahiti. Bligh proves to be a brutal tyrant and, after six pleasant months on Tahiti, Christian leads the crew to mutiny on the homeward voyage. Even though Byam takes no part in the mutiny, he must defend himself against charges that he supported Christian.
Leave your thoughts about Mutiny on the Bounty.
| The New York TimesAndre SennwaldThe weird and wonderful history of H. M. S. Bounty is magnificently transferred to the screen in Mutiny on the Bounty, which opened at the Capitol Theatre yesterday. 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. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleMutiny takes its time, and plenty of it, without being guilty of a single dull moment. |
| Empire MagazineKim NewmanA big studio film, with still-superb sea sequences and a then-daring erotic interlude with the native girls of Pitcairn Island, this remains irresistible. |
| VarietyVariety StaffThere's nothing to stand in the way of Mutiny qualifying for box office dynamite rating. |
| Tim Dirks' The Greatest FilmsTim DirksMutiny on the Bounty (1935) is one of the best nautical adventure films of all time and one of MGM's greatest classics. The 18th century story |
| ReelViewsJames BerardinelliA rousing adventure film set on the high seas. |
| The New YorkerPauline KaelThe production values, like the acting, are of the highest standard and the movie stands up well even by 21st century standards. |
| Chicago ReaderDave KehrAs with most Thalberg projects (the director of record was Frank Lloyd, but he barely matters), 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. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonThe story is spellbinding, the acting lusty and the spectacle everything you could expect from a Golden Age MGM production--though sometimes it's a bit too much on the monumental side. |
| Matt's Movie ReviewsMatt EasterbrookGable makes a great Fletcher Christian, in his last movie without a mustache. The emotions which cross his face as Bligh commits one indignity after another upon various crew members is great 1930s dramatic acting. |