Mutiny on the Bounty is a film.
Mutiny on the Bounty is an 1935 American drama film directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable , based on the Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall novel Mutiny on the Bounty . The film was one of the biggest hits of its time . Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1962 American Technicolor epic historical drama film starring Marlon Brando , Trevor Howard and Richard Harris , based on the novel Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall . It is the second American film to be made from the novel , the first being Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 ) . The film was heavily panned , and was considered a box office bomb , having lost over $ 6 million .