SEA CLASSIC

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3295, 2 August 1943, Page 5

SEA CLASSIC

“MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY” PROGRAMME AT REGENT MAGNIFICENT PRODUCTION “Mutiny On The Bounty,” Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s sea classic, again comes to the Regent Theatre on Tuesday and Wednesday. A picture that must take the highest place of all sea dramas. Three stars top a notable cast of more than fifty featured players. But the outstanding star of all is the sturdy little square-rigger “H.M.S. Bounty,” which figured in one of the most dramatic chapters of sea drama more than 150 years ago. A Great Achievement “Mutiny On The Bounty,” a crowning production achievement of the late Irving G. Thalberg, is the sea adventure immortalised in the sensational book of Charles Hordhoff and James Norman Hall. It is the true story of a scientific expedition of a group of men who rise in mutiny agains the tyranny of their captain and who are eventually tracked down by the long arm of England’s sea law and led back to an ignoble death on a yardarm, Charles Laughton, as Captain Bligh, far surpasses any previous performance of his spectacular screen career. He gives the role of Bligh the breath of life that the original Bligh could give it. Clark Gable appears as the leader of the mutineers, Fletcher Christian. “ SUNDOWN ” FINALLY TO-NIGHT “Sundown” will show finally tonight at the Regent Theatre.