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...other characters, the shots of the Bounty under sail, and the land sets are deserving of commendation, but one could keep on for hours. The fact remains that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has brought a great tale of men against men to the screen just about as effectively as did Nordhoff and Hall in their vivid book. That is high tribute to Hollywood...
Last year Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer bought Mutiny on the Bounty by James Norman Hall & Charles Nordhoff (TIME, Oct. 17, 1932). Last spring production started with Charles Laughton for Bligh, Clark Gable and Franchot Tone for sailors, San Miguel Island, 35 miles off Santa Barbara, for Pitcairn Island and a $15,000 barge with $50,000 worth of equipment for the Bounty. As unfortunate as her predecessor, the cinema Bounty last month broke a towrope, drifted out to sea with a watchman on board, remained lost for three days...
...That Pitcairn Island (a British possession) has come to be one of the most famed dots on the world map is largely due to two writers, Charles Bernard Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, who live in Tahiti with their native wives and dusky children. In Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against the Sea and Pitcairn's Island, U. S. Authors Nordhoff and Hall effectively told the whole story of the Bounty and its tangled sequel (TIME, Aug. 20 et ante...
...AGAINST THE SEA?Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall?Little, Brown...
PITCAIRN'S ISLAND?Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall?Little, Brown...