Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film) since the inception of talking pictures. It is grim, gripping and pictorially perfect." John Mosher of "The New Yorker" declared that the filmmakers had "done a good, solid, fine job" and wrote that Laughton's performance as Captain Bligh "may not be exactly the image of the original brute, but it's a Laughton masterpiece." "Mutiny on the Bounty" topped the annual "Film Daily" poll of 523 critics as the best film of 1936 (it was released too late in the year to appear on the 1935 ballot). According to MGM records the film earned $2,250,000 in the US and Canada and
HMS Bounty "Thirty-Six Years of a Seafaring Life by an Old Quarter Master". Beechey wrote a detailed account of the mutiny as recounted to him by the last survivor, Adams. Bechervaise, who described the life of the islanders, says he found the remains of the "Bounty" and took some pieces of wood from it which were turned into souvenirs such as snuff boxes. The details of the voyage of HMAV "Bounty" are very well documented, largely due to the effort of Bligh to maintain an accurate log before, during, and after the actual mutiny. "Bounty"s crew list is also well chronicled, down