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Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film) Quotes

Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film) is a television show that first aired in 1970 . Mutiny on the Bounty completed its run in 1970.

It features Frank Lloyd as producer, Score: in charge of musical score, and Arthur Edeson as head of cinematography.

Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film) is 132 minutes long. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film) is distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

The cast includes: Franchot Tone as Byam, and Clark Gable as Lt. Fletcher Christian.

Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film) Quotes

Clark Gable as Lt. Fletcher Christian

  • (Clark Gable) "When you're back in England with the fleet again, you'll hear the hue and cry against me. From now on they'll spell mutiny with my name."
  • (Clark Gable) "But the prisoner is dead sir."
  • (Captain William Bligh) "Never mind, continue with the punishment."
  • (Clark Gable) "He doesn't punish men for discipline. He likes to see men crawl."
  • (Clark Gable) "Mr. Bligh, I can't sign this book. No such amounts have been issued to the men."
  • (Captain William Bligh) "You've signed with extra kegs the ship never carried."
  • (Clark Gable) "I have, sir."
  • (Captain William Bligh) "Then, why not? We all do it. We'd be fools if we didn't do it on a lieutenant's pay. I want to stow away enough to keep me out of the gutter when I'm too old for service."
  • (Clark Gable) "I understand. A captain's prerogative. Ordinarily, I wouldn't mind."
  • (Captain William Bligh) "Why is this case different?"
  • (Clark Gable) "Because the captains I've served with before didn't starve their men. They didn't save money by buying up the stinking meat that you put aboard in Tenerife. They didn't buy yams that would sicken a pig"
  • (Captain William Bligh) "Silence."
  • (Clark Gable) "They didn't call their men thieves and flog them in the bone because they've complained about it."
  • (Captain William Bligh) "You impudent scoundrel. Sign that book."
  • (Clark Gable) "I refuse. And you have no authority that can make me."
  • (Captain William Bligh) "I haven't? I'll show you authority. Lay all hands aft. All hands aft."
  • (Clark Gable) "Murdering butcher. I've had enough of this blood ship. He's no master of life and death on a quarterdeck above the angels."
  • (Clark Gable) "There's something I want you to do."
  • (Franchot Tone) "Gladly. What is it?"
  • (Clark Gable) "One never knows what may happen on a voyage like this. If, for any reason, I don't return to England, I want you to see my parents."
  • (Franchot Tone) "Well, why shouldn't you return to England."
  • (Clark Gable) "Why? Because I can't stand this devil's work much longer. One day I'll forget this discipline and break his neck."
  • (Franchot Tone) "Wait until we're back in England. The Admiralty will save you the trouble."
  • (Clark Gable) "Well, in any case, I'd like you to see my parents."
  • (Franchot Tone) "Of course. Where do they live?"
  • (Clark Gable) "In Cumberland at Maincordare. I've almost forgotten what the old place looks like. I haven't seen in ten years. But I do remember a tapestry in the hall with ships and islands on it. Perhaps that's what sent me off to sea. I don't know. In any case, I'd like you to see my home. If anything should happen, tell my father and mother that you knew me."
  • (Franchot Tone) "You can count on me."
  • (Clark Gable) "Bligh, you've given your last command on this ship. We'll be men again if we hang for it."
  • (Captain William Bligh) "Mr. Christian, I give you your last chance to return to duty."
  • (Clark Gable) "I'll take my chance against the law. You'll take yours against the sea."
  • (Captain William Bligh) "But you're taking my ship. My ship."
  • (Clark Gable) "Your ship? The King's ship, you mean. And you're not fit to command it. Into the boat."

Franchot Tone as Byam

  • (Lord Hood) "Have you anything to say before the sentence of this court is passed upon you?"
  • (Franchot Tone) "Milord, much as I desire to live, I'm not afraid to die. Since I first sailed on the Bounty over four years ago, I've know how men can be made to suffer worse things than death, cruelly, beyond duty, beyond necessity."
  • (Franchot Tone) "Captain Bligh, you've told your story of mutiny on the Bounty, how men plotted against you, seized your ship, cast you adrift in an open boat, a great venture in science brought to nothing, two British ships lost. But there's another story, Captain Bligh, of ten cocoanuts and two cheeses. A story of a man who robbed his seamen, cursed them, flogged them, not to punish but to break their spirit. A story of greed and tyranny, and of anger against it, of what it cost."
  • (Franchot Tone) "One man, milord, would not endure such tyranny."
  • (Franchot Tone) "That's why you hounded him. That's why you hate him, hate his friends. And that's why you're beaten. Fletcher Christian's still free."
  • (Franchot Tone) "Christian lost, too, milord. God knows he's judged himself more harshly than you could judge him."
  • (Franchot Tone) "I say to his father, "He was my friend. No finer man ever lived.""
  • (Franchot Tone) "I don't try to justify his crime, his mutiny, but I condemn the tyranny that drove 'im to it. I don't speak here for myself alone or for these men you condemn. I speak in their names, in Fletcher Christian's name, for all men at sea. These men don't ask for comfort. They don't ask for safety. If they could speak to you they'd say, "Let us choose to do our duty willingly, not the choice of a slave, but the choice of free Englishmen." They ask only the freedom that England expects for every man. If one man among you believe that; one man; he could command the fleets of England, He could sweep the seas for England. If he called his men to their duty not by flaying their backs, but by lifting their hearts -- their -- That's all."

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