Mutiny On The Bounty - 8th Best Picture Winner

Mutiny On The Bounty - 8th Best Picture Winner
1935
#146 (2013)

Starring:
Clark Gable
Charles Laughton
Franchot Tone

Directed By:
Frank Lloyd

1935 Academy Awards
Winner:
Best Picture

Other Films Nominated:
Alice Adams
Broadway Melody of 1936
Captain Blood
David Copperfield
The Informer
The Lives Of A Bengal Lancer
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Les Miserables
Naughty Marietta
Ruggles Of Red Gap
Top Hat

So apparently I never posted this back last year when I originally watched the film. Sorry about that, dear readers. I suppose it goes to this not being one of my more favorite movies to have seen. It took me forever to watch it initially so its no surprise that its more than 7 months later that I'm posting about it!

This is the 2nd of 3 Clark Gable movies on the list. Truth is, I honestly really don't  like him much. The only 2 performances I've ever seen I like are It Happened On Night and GWTW and those have a good deal to do with the story, not just Gable. 

And then this story. Not high on the list of any movie I'd ever normally willingly go see or watch. It's the kind of thing Ive had to sit through with my father. 

And I think that's been the real reason I never got around to watching this. Hell, I'm typing this while just listening. Its already background noise. I've been stuck on this for the last 2 months. I've sent the disc back once and then put it back on my dvd list. But I've got to move on.

And God help me this thing is more than 2 hours long...

(Seriously WTF? Flogging a dead guy?)

Thankfully this was one story that I never had to read in high school or college, and it was never something we studied in Social Studies. And somehow I never had to sit through any other version of this that I can remember, not even the Errol Flynn. (And my father likes his movies, even better if they are silent)

Frankly, given how the men were treated, it's not any wonder why they revolted. The word asshole isn't even good enough to describe Bligh. Even sadder that he remained that way for the rest of his life, even court martialling those men he eventually brought back to England. Those that mutinied had a good time for a while, but nothing was ever peaceful for them, and most died in violence. 

One wonders if the lives they'd had aboard the ship were really worse than what they faced in the years after. 

On the good side, it was a well done film. I can see why it won Best Picture.