Tag: Clark Gable

Movie Review: Gone With the Wind

Scarlett is breaking under the stress of working with war wounded.

Movie Review: Gone With the Wind (1939) directed by Victor Fleming Gerald O’Hara (Thomas Mitchell) is an Irish immigrant who got lucky in a card game many years ago, winning a substantial tract of farmland in Georgia. He married a woman of French extraction named Ellen (Barbara O’Neil) and by hard work and being a decent… Continue reading Movie Review: Gone With the Wind

Movie Review: Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)

Captain Bligh and Mr. Christian have a tense relationship from the start.

Movie Review: Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) directed by Frank Lloyd Midshipman Roger Byam (Franchot Tone) is excited for his first Royal Navy assignment, sailing aboard the Bounty under Captain William Bligh (Charles Laughton) to Tahiti to secure breadfruit trees and in Mr. Byam’s case, compile a dictionary of the local language. Bligh is a brilliant navigator and… Continue reading Movie Review: Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)