Mutiny on the Bounty (1962 film) to return to Britain and testify to Bligh's wrongdoing and asks his men to sail with him. To prevent this possibility the men set the ship on fire and Christian is fatally burned while trying to save it. Following the success of 1935's "Mutiny on the Bounty", director Frank Lloyd announced plans in 1940 to make a sequel which focused on Captain Bligh in later life, to star Spencer Tracy or Charles Laughton. No film resulted. In 1945 Casey Wilson wrote a script for "Christian of the Bounty", which was to star Clark Gable as Fletcher Christian and focus on
Clark Gable with Spencer Tracy, which boosted Tracy's career and permanently cemented them in the public mind as a team. "San Francisco" (1936) featured Tracy in an only 17-minute, but Oscar-nominated, role in which he played a priest who knocks Gable, by then the studio's foremost leading man, down in a boxing ring. Their next film together was "Test Pilot" with Myrna Loy, in which Gable plays a dashing test pilot and Tracy is his admiring sidekick, another box office bonanza for the studio. For their final film, "Boom Town", Tracy moves up a rung with a larger part than earlier, almost