Coming up on Saturday at the described Movies: Mutiny on the Bounty and The Adventures of Robin Hood.
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From this Saturday at 12am Eastern, that’s 6pm Saturday in NZ, 4pm in Sydney and 5am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day, it’s the described movies Mutiny on the Bounty from 1935 and The Adventures of Robin Hood from 1938.
Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1935 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer drama film directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable, based on the 1932 Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall novel Mutiny on the Bounty.
Despite historical inaccuracies, the film was a huge box office success, becoming the highest-grossing film of 1935 and one of MGM's biggest hits of the 1930s.
The film went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Directed by: Frank Lloyd.
Produced by: Frank Lloyd and Irving Thalberg.
Written by: Talbot Jennings, Jules Furthman and Carey Wilson.
Based on: Mutiny on the Bounty: (1932 novel)” by “ Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall.
Starring: Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, Movita and Mamo.
Music by: Score: Herbert Stothart, Nat W. Finston, Song: Walter Jurmann and Bronisław0 Kaper.
Cinematography: Arthur Edeson.
Edited by: Margaret Booth.
Distributed by: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Release date: 8 November , 1935.
File length: 132 minutes.
Country: United States.
Language: English.
Budget: $1,950,000.
Box office: $4,460,000 rentals).
The Adventures of Robin Hood is a 1938 American Technicolor swashbuckler film from Warner Bros. Pictures.
It was produced by Hal B. Wallis and Henry Blanke, directed by Michael Curtiz and William Keighley, and stars Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Patric Knowles, Eugene Pallette and Alan Hale Sr.
The film was written by Norman Reilly Raine and Seton I. Miller.
The storyline depicts the legendary Saxon knight Robin Hood who, in King Richard the Lionheart's absence in the Holy Land during the Crusades, fights back as the outlaw leader of a rebel guerrilla band against Prince John and the Norman lords oppressing the Saxon commoners.
The Adventures of Robin Hood has been acclaimed by critics since its release.
In 1995, the film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation by the National Film Registry.
Alan Hale Sr., who plays Little John, had played the same character in Douglas Fairbanks's 1922 version of the film and went on to play him again in Rogues of Sherwood Forest, released by Columbia in 1950, a 28-year span.
Directed by: Michael Curtiz and William Keighley.
Produced by: Hal B. Wallis and Henry Blanke.
Screenplay by: Norman Reilly Raine, Seton I. Miller and Rowland Leigh.
Starring: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Una O'Connor.
Music by: Erich Wolfgang Korngold.
Cinematography: Tony Gaudio, Sol Polito, W. Howard Greene (Technicolor photo) and Natalie Kalmus0c0 (Technicolor dir).
Edited by: Ralph Dawson.
Colour process: Technicolor.
Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures.
Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures.
Release date: 14 May , 1938 (US).
File length: 102 minutes.
Country: United States.
Language: English.
Budget: $2,033,000.
Box office: $3,981,000.
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