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In the Wake of the Bounty (
1933-Events:*British Film Institute founded.*March 2 - King Kong premieres in New York City.* June 6 - The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey....
) was an
AustraliaAustralia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the continental mainland , the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans...
n film retelling of the story of the Bounty that preceded MGM's more famous
Mutiny on the BountyMutiny 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....
by two years and featured the screen debut of
Errol FlynnErrol Leslie Flynn was an Australian film actor, known for his romantic swashbuckler roles in Hollywood films and his flamboyant lifestyle.-Background and early life:...
, playing
Fletcher ChristianFletcher Christian was a Master's mate on board the Bounty during William Bligh's fateful voyage to Tahiti for breadfruit plants...
. Mayne Lynton portrayed Captain Bligh and
Charles ChauvelCharles Edward Chauvel OBE was an Australian film maker, born in Warwick, Queensland. He was the nephew of General Sir Henry Chauvel, Commander of the Australian Light Horse and later the Desert Mounted Corps in Palestine during World War I...
directed the film. When Flynn became famous for playing pirates at
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a couple of years later, and told people about this film, few people believed him. Flynn, a Tasmanian, had made the film in a Sydney studio although he often claimed he made it in the South PacificOceania is a geographical, often geopolitical, region consisting of numerous lands—mostly islands in the Pacific Ocean and vicinity. The term "Oceania" was coined in 1831 by French explorer Dumont d'Urville...
as an isolated brush with acting before trying his luck in America.
Cast
- Arthur Greenaway ... Narrator
- Mayne Lynton ... Lieut. Bligh
Vice-Admiral William Bligh FRS RN was an officer of the British Royal Navy and a colonial administrator. A notorious mutiny occurred during his command of HMS Bounty in 1789; Bligh and his loyal men made a remarkable voyage to Timor, after being set adrift by the mutineers in the Bounty's launch...
- Errol Flynn
Errol Leslie Flynn was an Australian film actor, known for his romantic swashbuckler roles in Hollywood films and his flamboyant lifestyle.-Background and early life:...
... Fletcher ChristianFletcher Christian was a Master's mate on board the Bounty during William Bligh's fateful voyage to Tahiti for breadfruit plants...
- Victor Gouriet ... Michael Byrne - The 'Bounty's' Blind Fiddler
- John Warwick ... Midshipman Young
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