In the Wake of the Bounty In the Wake of the Bounty In the Wake of the Bounty (1933) is an Australian film directed by Charles Chauvel about the 1789 Mutiny on the Bounty. It is notable as the screen debut of Errol Flynn, playing Fletcher Christian. The film preceded MGM's more famous "Mutiny on the Bounty", starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable, by two years. Chauvel's film uses introductory enacted scenes showing the mutiny, followed by documentary footage, anthropological style, of the mutineers' descendants on Pitcairn Island. Chauvel also used footage of Polynesian women dancers; and film of an underwater shipwreck, filmed with a glass
William Stack legal drama "A Free Soul", in a small role. The film stars Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Lionel Barrymore, and Clark Gable. 1932 would see him in another small role, that of a doctor in "Payment Deferred", starring Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Sullivan. In "Charlie Chan's Greatest Case" (1933), starring Warner Oland in the title role, Stack had the minor part of Jack Eagan. Small roles followed in the 1934 films "The Fountain", starring Ann Harding, "Manhattan Melodrama", starring Clark Gable, William Powell, and Myrna Loy, "Wonder Bar", starring Al Jolson, and "Chained", starring Gable and Joan Crawford. Before he appeared