“Pitcairn’S Island”

“Bounty” Sequel to be Filmed

CAPITALISING on the publicity given to the film, “Mutiny on the Bounty” when it won the Motion Picture Academy’s award for the best production in 1935, the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Com pany has announced that work is to start immediately at their studios on “Pitcairn’s Island,” the sequel to the famous sea story written by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall.

Clark Gable will still have the role of Fletcher Christian, and Mamo Clarke, a young Honolulu girl, will again play the female lead of Christian’s native wife, Maimiti. Frank Lloyd, who directed “Mutiny on the Bounty ” is now a pro ducer with M.G.M.’s rival company, the Paramount Corporation, but he may be “borrowed” to direct “Pitcairn’s Island.”

Nordhoff and Hall’s story of what hap pened to the mutineers on Pitcairn after they burnt their ship in Bounty Bay is a vivid, stark tale of horror and tragedy, containing all the elements for another first-class film.

The nine mutineers with six Tahitians and 12 native women found sanctuary on the little island in 1790. Ten years later only one man and 10 women were left, with a family of small children, and of the 16 dead 15 had come to violent ends.

Drink, jealousy over the women, and race conflict between black and white played their part in the tragic drama enacted on Pitcairn between 1790 and 1808 when their refuge was discovered and made known to the world by Captain Mayhew Folger, of the American sealing vessel Topaz.