Breadfruit

Just finished watching Mutiny on the Bounty. I don't think Clark Gable was ever more attractive, more compelling than he is in this film. That might be because this role lacks the sort of irritating smugness that came with the "charming rogue" parts he was so often cast in. (And I always thought he was most handsome early in his career.) Add to that, he had to shave off his famous moustache for the role of Fletcher Christian, as sailors in the Royal Navy of this era would have had to have been clean-shaven.

I discovered only recently the story was based on an actual event (a fact that I'd somehow missed before now), though this film is based largely on works that tell a fictionalized version of the story.