Nov. 4 movie: Mutiny on the Bounty. The 1935 verson, which I'm kind of embarrassed that I had never seen before. I've heard that it isn't super-accurate, at least in the portrayal of Captain Bligh. Apparently the real Bligh was stern but not a sadist, and none of the punishments seen in the movie were out of line for the British Navy at the time. Still Charles Laughton is great, as is Clark Gable and Franchot Tone. The ho-yay between Gable and Tone is palpable: there's one scene where their Tahitian girlfriends have wandered off to swim or something, and the two men are lying together on the beach, where I was yelling "just kiss him already!" at the screen.
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