Mutiny on the Bounty
It's fun.
It's fine.
It's a bit slow in parts.
Sorry, there's just not much to say on this one. It's a simple adventure movie, there's a good guy and a bad guy, good performances all around (Charles Laughton excels at being a total schmuck, and Franchot Tone just about steals the show from Clark Gable as Byam), but there is not much to discuss here. Mutiny On The Bounty is straight-forward in what it's trying to do and what it succeeds at, and I respect that. I applaud that. Maybe you could make a case for it looking at the "right thing for the wrong reasons versus wrong thing for the right reasons" debate, but I don't think the movie's really trying to do that. It's just a story about men at sea, a tyrannical, unreasonable captain, and how far it'll take before his lieutenant finally draws a line. And it does a fine job of that.
Mini Review: It's fun.
It's fine.
It's a bit slow in parts.
Sorry, there's just not much to say on this one. It's a simple adventure movie, there's a good guy and a bad guy, good performances all around (Charles Laughton excels at being a total schmuck, and Franchot Tone just about steals the show from Clark Gable as Byam), but there is not much to discuss here. Mutiny On The Bounty is straight-forward in what it's trying to do and what it succeeds at, and I respect that. I applaud that. Maybe yo...
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