Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film) but was not successful and received few bookings outside Australia. There was also an even earlier film, the 1916 Australian–New Zealand film, "The Mutiny on the Bounty" directed by Raymond Longford. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film) Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1935 American drama film directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable, based on the Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall novel "Mutiny on the Bounty". The film was one of the biggest hits of its time. Although its historical accuracy has been questioned (inevitably, as it is based on a novel), film critics
David Clark (1816 ship) David Clark (1816 ship) David Clark was launched in 1816 and may have been broken up in at Batavia in 1854. In 1839 she carried mainly Scots assisted migrants to Australia, and was the first immigrant ship to sail from the Great Britain directly to Port Phillip. In 1842 she transported more than 300 convicts to Hobart. A "David Clark" sailed between India and the Mediterranean, arriving in Malta in 1820, where a portrait was made, and then returning via Gibraltar to Bengal, arriving on 27 September 1821. She was involved in the East India Company's military expedition to Burma