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Release Date: 1933

Cast: Errol Flynn

Categories: Movies, Action, Adventure, Black-and-white

In the Wake of the Bounty (1933) is an Australian film directed by Charles Chauvel and is notable as the screen debut of Errol Flynn, playing Fletcher Christian; with Mayne Lynton playing Captain Bligh. The film explores the story of the Bounty and is based on the 1932 novel Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. The Australian film preceded MGM's more famous Mutiny on the Bounty by two years. Chauvel's film uses introductory enacted scenes showing the mutiny, followed by much more interesting documentary footage, anthropological style, of the mutineers'... MORE

In the Wake of the Bounty (1933) is an Australian film directed by Charles Chauvel and is notable as the screen debut of Errol Flynn, playing Fletcher Christian; with Mayne Lynton playing Captain Bligh. The film explores the story of the Bounty and is based on the 1932 novel Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. The Australian film preceded MGM's more famous Mutiny on the Bounty by two years. 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 value). Chauvel also used footage of Polynesian women dancers; and film of an underwater shipwreck, filmed with a glass bottomed boat, which he believed was the Bounty but was probably not. This was Chauvel's first 'talkie' and he had clearly not at this stage learned to direct actors: the dialogue is very stiff and amateurish The use of long sections of documentary footage with a voice over, combined with acted scenes, is similar to the hybrid silent and talking pictures that were produced during the transition to sound. It also represents LESS