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
Charles Edgar Clark Charles Edgar Clark Rear Admiral Charles Edgar Clark (August 10, 1843 – October 1, 1922) was an officer in the United States Navy during the American Civil War and the Spanish–American War. Born in Bradford, Vermont on August 10, 1843, Charles Edgar Clark attended Bradford Academy and then the Naval Academy in 1860. He graduated the Naval Academy in 1863 and served on the screw sloop during the Civil War for the Battle of Mobile Bay. Clark was officially made a captain in 1896, most remarkably for his command of the battleship Oregon. After his impressive commandment of his ship