Watch In the Wake of the Bounty (2012) Free Online

Release Date: 2012

Cast: Errol Flynn

Categories: Movies, Black-And-White, Action, Drama Film, Adventure

In the Wake of the Bounty (1933) is an Australian film directed by Charles Chauvel exploring the story of the Bounty. It preceded MGM's more famous Mutiny on the Bounty by two years and featured the screen debut of Errol Flynn, playing Fletcher Christian. Mayne Lynton portrayed Captain Bligh. When Flynn became famous for playing pirates at Warner Bros. a couple of years later, and told people about this film, few people believed him. Flynn, a Tasmanian, had made the film in a Sydney studio although he often claimed he made it in the South Pacific as an isolated brush with acting before... MORE

In the Wake of the Bounty (1933) is an Australian film directed by Charles Chauvel exploring the story of the Bounty. It preceded MGM's more famous Mutiny on the Bounty by two years and featured the screen debut of Errol Flynn, playing Fletcher Christian. Mayne Lynton portrayed Captain Bligh. When Flynn became famous for playing pirates at Warner Bros. a couple of years later, and told people about this film, few people believed him. Flynn, a Tasmanian, had made the film in a Sydney studio although he often claimed he made it in the South Pacific as an isolated brush with acting before trying his luck in America. He would also later claim to be descended from Bounty mutineers. There was at least one other film of the Bounty story prior to Chauvel's film, by Australians Raymond Longford and Lottie Lyall, filmed in New Zealand. In 1935, some of the documentary scenes from Chauvel's film were bought by MGM and re-edited into trailers for the Hollywood film. Chauvel's film uses introductory enacted scenes showing the mutiny, followed by much more interesting documentary footage, anthropological style, of the mutineers' descendants on Pitcairn Island (this footage now has great historic LESS