The Bounty (1984 film) for the Welsh actor: "He was terrific. He was good to work with because he was open and he was willing to give. He's a moral man, and you could see this. I think we had the same attitudes." The first version, an Australian silent film, "The Mutiny of the Bounty", was made in 1916. The second, "In the Wake of the Bounty" (1933) was another Australian production, starring Errol Flynn in his film debut. The third and most famous version, "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1935), starred Clark Gable, Charles Laughton and Franchot Tone. The fourth, a remake of the
Charles Laughton is Mine" (1943), by Jean Renoir, in which he engaged himself most actively; in fact, while Renoir was still working on an early script, Laughton would talk about Alphonse Daudet's story "The Last Lesson", which suggested to Renoir a relevant scene for the film. Laughton played a henpecked husband who eventually murders his wife in "The Suspect" (1944), directed by Robert Siodmak, who would become a good friend. He played sympathetically an impoverished composer-pianist in "Tales of Manhattan" (1942) and starred in an updated version of Oscar Wilde's "The Canterville Ghost" in 1944. Laughton appeared in two comedies with Deanna