a “He-Man’s” Picture!

“Mutiny on the Bounty” is a “He-Man’s” Picture!

“1VT UTINY on the Bount y ” adapted by ItJ. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from the famous trilogy by Messrs. Charles B.

Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, of Tahiti (“Mutiny,” “Men Against the Sea,” and “Pitcairn’s Island”) has not yet ar rived on Sydney cinema screens, but it is on its way.

Meanwhile, it has been seen in Hono lulu, and this is what the “Star Bulletin” says of it: “Mutiny on the Bounty,” taken from the pages of history and translated to the screen, cannot be compared with any other film achievement. It stands alone and far above anything of its kind that has been filmed or which may be filmed for years to come.

It is sea drama as it actually took place 150 years ago, a true chapter from mari time history that resulted in great reform amongst all ships of the sea and which eliminated for all time the brutal treat ment men who go to sea expected and suffered. A large and talented cast was required to play the important roles, and heading this remarkable concentration of major film players are Clark Gable, Charles Laughton and Franchot Tone.

The little square-rigged H.M.S. Bounty sails for the South Seas on a scientific mission to transplant breadfruit trees to the West Indies. Her crew is a motley one of convicts and bewildered wretches “pressed” into service. Her skipper is tyrannical Capt. Bligh, who knows only one law —the merciless law of the sea and an almost fanatical loyalty to the navy and the crown.

Capt. Bligh is relived in this amazing photoplay by Laughton, who makes the character a ruthless and harsh disciplin arian. Fletcher Christian, the master’s mate, is portrayed by Clark Gable in his finest role. Those throughout the world who have read the book will agree that Gable, as Christian, leader of the muti neers, could not have been a better choice.

Quickly the true story of the Bounty progresses —a grumbling crew lashed by interminable storms that lengthened the voyage; living on scant and rotten rations because the captain appropriated the bet ter food for his own use; a snarling Capt.

Bligh raging incessantly at his embit tered crew; floggings, death and scurvy.

Then the halcyon days that followed when the Bounty reached Tahiti; the soothing influence of native women, fresh food, and happiness.

As quickly unfolds the start of the re turn voyage, with Bligh’s tyranny driving his men to mutiny to put him over the side in an open boat.

Adventure after adventure follows the mutiny which has no parallel in naval history—the dogged pursuit of the muti neers years later, the capture of some and their finish on the gallows, the escape of others to Pitcairn Island where 200 of their descendants live to this day.

“Mutiny on the Bounty” is a “he-man’s” picture, but a “he-man’s” picture that women, as well, will thrill over.

Among the featured players is a beauti ful girl the cast lists only as Mamo. Her full name is Margaret Mamo Clark, Hono lulu girl now studying law at the Univer sity of Southern California, who was selected to play the featured feminine role, that of the native girl Fletcher Christian took to wife.