Mutiny on the Bounty

The middle on the island seems unnecessary, as it simply extends the wait for the inevitable mutiny, but everything before and after is wonderful. Laughton and Gable are really good in their parts, and both the lead up and after effects of the mutiny are exciting and suspenseful.

Incredible acting and action here. Really good scenes on the water. There's a little white-washing of history in regards to the British as benevolent visitors to foreign islands, but I credit it for including actual Pacific Islander actors. Bligh is tremendous and infuriating and Gable is easy to cheer for. Franchot Tone is often overlooked, but he was great too.

Laughton is fantastic and Gable is good. I enjoyed the story for the most part, but it dragged during the island section and seemed somewhat directionless at times. But it's a very fun and enjoyable movie, due mainly to Laughton's great performance. Also, the movie is very good technically. Directing this large cast on a real ship in real water must have been quite a challenge, but Lloyd pulls it off beautifully.

How can I dislike a film such as this with this line? "Surgeon, you would have made an excellent historian. You have a profound contempt for facts."

135 minute runtime on a movie from 1935 had me a little scared going in, but this movie really sings. The actual sailing scenes really shine, as do the performances by Gable, Laughton, and Tone. Also, anybody else get a real strong John Candy vibe off of Captain Bligh?

Watched on 4/15/20; Trump recently tweeted a comparison of himself to Bligh. This piqued my interest in the actual historical event so there went an hour, but it rehabilitated my image of Bligh somewhat compared to the tyrannical depiction of him here. The class dynamics were also shown here with a royal pardon at the end. The Tahiti parts in the middle felt long but shows some of the motivation behind the mutineers who desired an island paradise. Fav scene: the mutiny itself.

As everyone else has stated Laughton was fantastic and Gable was solid. Despite Hitihiti being pretty much whatever the Polynesian equivalent of Blackface would be called, it still has a much better portrayal of Pacific Islanders compared to other movies from the time (eg. King Kong.) It's not a perfect film, but it's still well-told, technically proficient and compelling.

A classic that still holds up well. Laughton is great.

I wouldn't call this a great movie, but it's pretty good. My understanding is that it's a rather inaccurate portrayal of the true events, but that's not very important to me. Laughton, Gable, and Tone are all very watchable. If the characters aren't the most well-rounded, at least they're not entirely one-dimensional. I can't think of anything noteworthy that irked me, maybe a couple of the comic moments. It's a fun film that rarely gets dull, and has some decent camerawork as well.

Laughton's Bligh is an indelible performance, the mold in which all subsequent cinematic dickhead hard-asses is set.

Laughton is great.

Laughton is great. And Gable is good too.

What bothers me about this movie is how it presents Bligh as a tyrant and Christian as a hero, when in fact Bligh was an honorable man and Christian was a greedy bastard. It bothers me not because of the inaccuracy itself, but because it is the easier of the two possible stories to tell, and I think the other -- featuring Bligh as a heroic character -- could potentially have been more interesting. But all of that aside, this is a good movie.

Not quite sure when it should end, but, otherwise, a fairly decent movie

Suffers from the adaptation problem. This plot and pacing work for novels, not film. We get character but not development. Some cool footage though.

Laughton with a captivating portrayal of the villain/captain, while Gable is meh as always. This film had aged surprisingly well, actually, though could have been even better if they followed the real story more closely and build a less obvious good vs. bad plot.

Wow!! Not sure why I never saw this one. What a great movie experience! An impressive production and great performance by Charles Laughton and Clark Gable.

A very long film, and historically questionable. Laughton steals the picture with his bombastic portrayal of a vengeful captain. (I wasn't convinced that never-a-hair-out-of-place Gable would ever had led a mutiny, but, sometimes you work with what you have.)

They did a great job of making the captain so despicably unlikable that you want Clark Gable to mutiny in the first half hour.

Star Rating: ★★1/2

Charles Laughton is the absolute best, and I always love a good classic Clark Gable movie.

Feels a bit like a much longer movie inelegantly cut down - the pacing gets a bit weird, there are some odd intertitles, and it rushes towards the conclusion - but Charles Laughton is great.

Here it is. MGM's $2 million production. Their biggest to-date. Charles Laughton as the nasty Captain Bligh! Clark Gable as the man who stands up to him. Franchot Tone as the middle ground. And exotic girls to spice things up. A great illustration of human suffering at sea and a top cast to tell it with the rivalry between Laughton & Gable slowly building up the boiling point. The ending focused on moral aspects of the situation with the court case giving it a more human touch to sign off.

It started pretty promisingly, but the further it progressed, the less impressed I became. It's well crafted, but the story doesn't really offer any surprises, the characters are cardboard, and the dialogue is very corny at times. The depiction of the island natives is also very stereotypical and silly. The best thing about this is Laughton's very good performance as Bligh.

It's been a long time since I've seen it, but I loved the melodrama and the classic acting.

"The performances by Gable and Tone hold up as fine star and character turns, respectively, but it's Laughton's Bligh that proves unforgettable."

The definitive film version of the story. Although somewhat abridged compared to the 3-hour epic from 1962 - Clark Gable makes a much more believable Fletcher Christian than Marlon Brando.

Maybe not entirely accurate, historically, but a damn good yarn, and Laughton is perfect.

One of the great adventure movies of all time. Laughton's award-winning performance as the infamous Captain Bligh is worth canceling all plans, and staying home to watch.

Weird.

Rollicking good adventure that reminds you of how silly the british are/were!

Charles Laughton's is the best performance of Bligh committed to film that I've seen.

There's just something very wrong when the "hero" of a movie is the leader of a press gang

Excellent classic.