Video Review

Mutiny on the Bounty (1993)

Reviewed by Steve Daly | Sep 10, 1993
EW's GRADE
A

Details Movie Rated: Unrated; Genre: Drama; With: Clark Gable and Charles Laughton; Distributor: MGM

The cover crows ''remastered,'' but parts of Mutiny on the Bounty's original negative are so weather-beaten there's just no scraping off all the barnacles. Night scenes tend to turn especially rough and grainy. Still, most of the battles between Gable's he-man Mr. Christian and Laughton's pudgy-lipped Captain Bligh look sharpened. After the movie, one short shows Hollywood stars frisking about in Bounty's Catalina locations, and another tells the harsh fate of the real-life Bounty's mutineers. Now that's making an already first-class vessel a true luxury liner. A

Originally posted Jul 31, 2009 Published in issue #187 Sep 10, 1993 Order article reprints

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