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IN THE WAKE OF THE BOUNTY
New Australian Production
Travelogues and dramas have drenched the screen with the spray of South Sea beaches until the filmgoer imagines that he knows every angle from which a palm can be photographed. Then an Australian, Mr. Charles Chauvel, makes “In the Wake of the Bounty,” and presents the Pacific under a strange and cloudy beauty such as has never before been filmed…
…the first part of the film is a glamorous reconstruction of history, with young Errol Flynn playing the part of Fletcher Christian, Mayne Lynton that of Bligh, and Victor Gouriet that of the blind fiddler, who tells the tale.
The West Australian, 1933
There was a kitten asleep on the greyhound’s head, and four more snuggled into the crevices of his bony body as he lay on the hearth. The
