Talk:Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film)

This article needs to be adopted by someone...
...it's really not in very good shape. Ed Fitzgerald t / c 07:53, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Allmovie
Reference available for citing in the article body. Erik (talk) 20:08, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
 * ... plot synopsis, review, cast, production credits, awards

Plot
I started to correct the spelling, grammar, and punctuation of this section, but quickly realized it has other errors, too. For example, the mutineers did not live on Tahiti for "many years." They were forced to leave after a few months, and kidnapped a number of women when they left.

Although I have read the Nordhoff and Hall novel and have seen both this film and the 1962 version with Trevor Howard and Marlon Brando, I am more familiar with the actual history than with the plot of this film. Therefore, I am reluctant to make major changes to this article without seeing the film again, for fear that I might create historical accuracy that does not accurately reflect the fictionalized version presented in the film.

As someone else has said, this article needs to be adopted. I will happily do so as soon as I can equip myself with a fresher memory of the 1935 film. Altgeld (talk) 19:10, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

3 nominations
The only reason there were three Best Actor nominations was because the Academy Awards did not have a supporting category at the time. Franchot Tone was not a lead in the film and he should have been nominated as a supporting actor. (86.183.30.126 (talk) 16:42, 25 April 2016 (UTC))

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Cary Grant
Cary Grant, according to several books, was almost cast in Franchot Tone's role and would have accepted it but the studio decided to go with Tone instead since he was a bigger name at the time (this was a year or two before Grant's mega-breakthrough in The Awful Truth made him arguably the most sought-after screen leading man for decades). Rocketvault (talk) 10:28, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

Clark Gable and Cary Grant never worked together on a subsequent film because of top billing issues and had to settle for exchanging unwanted monogrammed Christmas gifts that others had given them, a practice they maintained for years. Rocketvault (talk) 10:38, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

The movie ship Bounty
I deem the former story wrong. It went, quote (ref disabled) A British merchant navy officer(ref)Le Page, Peter "A working lifetime" (1991) recalled in his memoirs seeing the fore and aft-rigged schooner Commodore II being broken up in Cape Town in 1945, having suffered severe gale damage, and that this was the ship that had been re-rigged for the film. One fact against this memory is that a ship named Commodore II which was wrecked in South Africa in 1948 after her last voyage in 1946 was a four-masted schooner of the British Navy.(1) The differences in this "coincidence" may be blamed to vaning memories.

Other sources (and the Wiki article) claim that USS Metha Nelson, a three-masted (2) topsail schooner, was bought by Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer, modified and used as Bounty in the movie(3) before being acquired by the US Navy from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1942. This vessel's history is well documented in the last source.

(1) (2)  (3)  Alossola (talk) 14:48, 14 May 2023 (UTC)