Review-O-Sphere

To see part 1, click here . Captain Blood Suite~Erich Wolfgang Kornold - Captain Blood One neat little milestone about this Oscar ceremony is this was the first time that the golden statuettes given out were actually called Oscars. Before this they were just called… awards, trophies, I dunno but they weren’t called Oscars. While Mutiny on the Bounty was the biggest hit, and arguably most beloved film, of that year, it is actually one of the very few movies to actually win only Best Picture and nothing else. In fact, it’s the most recent movie to win Best Picture and nothing else, and this happened over 80 years ago. I mentioned that it filled up the Best Actor category but all of the nominees lost to Victor McLaglen’s performance in The Informer which is the first movie that we have to talk about. Yes, The Informer was Mutiny on the Bounty ’s big competition that year, winning the lion’s share of the awards. The film takes place in revolutionary Ireland and revolves around a local d...

    Main Theme~Herbert Stothart - Mutiny on the Bounty Mutiny on the Bounty is probably the first of these Oscar winners that the average person has at the very least heard of. When I say titles like Wings (1927) or Cimarron (1931), you probably have no clue what the Hell I’m talking about. This is one that still endures in pop culture. Maybe All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) too, but we’ve already talked about that movie, we’re here to talk about this one. True to its title, Mutiny on the Bounty tells of the infamous mutiny on the HMS Bounty , a major landmark in British naval history that raised questions about how needlessly cruel the rules of the sea were. Of course, being a romanticized 30s film from the Golden Age of Hollywood, this ain’t exactly the most historically accurate account of what actually happened on the real HMS Bounty but we’ll get to that in a little bit. What’s the plot? The HMS Bounty has been contracted to embark on a voyage to the beautif...