A difficult one to evaluate. The 'Bounty' segments are pretty dire, with some appallingly melodramatic scripting and truly horrific acting, including - in fact especially - from Mr Flynn, who is making the debut that resulted in Warners' publicity department making up, wholesale, the fiction that the swashbuckler was descended from Fletcher Christian. The travelogue sections are a not-very-credible rose-tinted view of the islanders' hardy stoicism and community spirit in what was essentially a theocratic dictatorship. But, the self-conscious and pompous narration is convincing and they are nevertheless rather interesting in spite of that...
Review of In the Wake of the Bounty
