A former member of the crew of the HMS Bounty recounts the story of the mutiny aboard ship.A former member of the crew of the HMS Bounty recounts the story of the mutiny aboard ship.A former member of the crew of the HMS Bounty recounts the story of the mutiny aboard ship.
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This is a documentary about the people of Pitcairn Island. In among what is straight documentary, there are a few scenes which acts out the mutiny on the Bounty. If that were not bad enough, the action opens with a few old tars telling yarns in a tavern. And if that were not bad enough, the acting in these scenes (Errol Flynn excepted) is really, really bad.
It is worth watching as a documentary of Pitcairn Island. It is also worth watching to see the germs of stardom in Errol Flynn.
I have never ever seen another film quite like this one - which is just as well.
It is worth watching as a documentary of Pitcairn Island. It is also worth watching to see the germs of stardom in Errol Flynn.
I have never ever seen another film quite like this one - which is just as well.
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- TriviaThanks to Warner Brothers' publicity department, it was long told that on his mother's side, Errol Flynn was a direct descendant of Fletcher Christian, the character he portrays in this film. Modern research has shown that Flynn was not descended from any of the Bounty mutineers.
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Midshipman Young: I wonder how much longer it'll be before those black dogs put a knife in our backs?
Fletcher Christian: I care not if it be tonight. Death would be a release from the remorse which dogs my footsteps day and night, night and day.
- Crazy creditsOpening Card: In the Wake of the Bounty is not a drama. It is the first of a series of great travel films to be produced by Expeditionary Films, Ltd, depicting strange incidents, strange places, and strange peoples. Each travel feature will contain the thread of a story based upon a true life drama. The mutiny of the Bounty has been acclaimed as the most tragic and strange sea story of all time -- when a crew of British sailors sent their commander and eighteen companions adrift upon the Pacific and signed a sinister pact with a pagan race -- to live, in isolation, upon a rock, at the bottom of the world. The mutiny, which was a bloodless affair, was the result of an effort to transport breadfruit trees from Tahiti to the West Indies by Lieutenant Bligh, who was afterwards the Governor of New South Wales. The audience will follow in the Wake of the Bounty with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Chauvel, as they traversed 15,000 miles in the South Seas to secure the exact backgrounds upon which the drama of the Bounty was enacted. Expeditionary Films has not spared time or money to blaze a new trail-- a trail which they hope will lead to many pleasant hours amidst adventure and romance.
- ConnectionsEdited into Pitcairn Island Today (1935)
- SoundtracksThe Hebrides Overture: Fingal's Cave, Op. 26
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Music by Felix Mendelssohn
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- Runtime1 hour 6 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was In the Wake of the Bounty (1933) officially released in Canada in English?
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