An expeditionary crew in early 1935 filmed backgrounds, villages and bays, searching for the perfect settings. Scriptwriters followed Nordoff and Hall's novels quite closely. They knew that this would be the company’s most extravagant movie of the year it would follow up on the escapism success of the books and play up the giant scope of the production.įrank Lloyd insisted on historical authenticity. With the help of uncredited producer Irving Thalberg, Director Frank Lloyd convinced the M-G-M’s chiefs in 1934, in the midst of the nation's great economic depression, to budget almost $2 million to the making of the film. This job took the Lloyd family all over England and Wales and Scotland until an engine accident forced the family to settle down in Shepherd's Bush outside of London where they bought a pub.īesides this 1935 epic, Mutiny on the Bounty, Frank Lloyd searched for stories about ships and the power and mystery of the sea: as an actor The Sea Wolf, Captain Kidd, and as a director, The Sea Hawk, Winds of Chance, The Eagle of the Sea, The Divine Lady, Weary River, Cavalcade, Rulers of the Sea and the merchant marine saga, This Woman is Mine. The lure of the sea, the open ocean, a sailor's life, and Her Majesty's ships began as a child for Frank Lloyd while watching his mechanical engineer father install turbines and engines in all sorts of boats, including the Tall Ships. And by the end of his career in 1955, he had acted in, written, directed and/or produced more than 180 films, was President of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences 1934-35 and a founder of the Directors' Guild. He moved easily from acting and script writing to directing.westerns, dramas, romances, shorts, science fiction, a documentary, war stories, histories, mysteries, melodramatic comedies, a thriller, crime stories, a biography, a fantasy, a fund-raiser for the war effort, even a film noir and a musical. Grand daughter Tonia Guerrero writes about the making of this powerful film.īefore Frank Lloyd became a Hollywood silent screen villain in 1912, he used his strong singing voice and comic timing on vaudeville stages in London, Canada and eventually, California.

Mutiny on the bounty 1935 movie cast