In the Wake of the Bounty short promotional travelogues, "Pitcairn Island Today" (1935) and "Primitive Pitcairn" (1936). 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
Vessel of Wrath positive review, calling it a "charming, neglected romantic comedy" in which both Laughton and Lanchester are "wonderful". "The New York Times" review of the second film adaptation, starring Robert Newton, found it less entertaining than its predecessor, which was praised as a "vigorous comedy and a thing of film beauty" with "inspired characterizations by Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester". Vessel of Wrath Vessel of Wrath is a 1938 British film directed by Erich Pommer, and produced by Pommer and starring Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester. It was based on the Somerset Maugham short story "The Vessel of Wrath". The film