Academy Award for Best Picture

1935

Mutiny on the Bounty

Release dates

November 8, 1935

Starring

Charles Laughton

Clark Gable

Franchot Tone

Movita

Mamo

Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1935 film starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable, and directed by Frank Lloyd based on the Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall novel Mutiny on the Bounty.

The film was one of the biggest hits of its time. Although its historical accuracy has been questioned (inevitable as it is based on a novel about the facts, not the facts themselves), film critics consider this adaptation to be the best cinematic work inspired by the mutiny.