In the Wake of the Bounty (1933) was an Australian film retelling of the story of the Bounty that preceded MGM’s more famous Mutiny on the Bounty by two years and featured the screen debut of Errol Flynn, playing Fletcher Christian. Mayne Lynton portrayed Captain Bligh and Charles Chauvel directed the film. When Flynn became famous for playing pirates at Warner Bros. a couple of years later, and told people about this film, few people believed him. Flynn, a Tasmanian, had made the film in a Sydney studio although he often claimed he made it in the South Pacific as an isolated brush with acting before trying his luck in America.
Errol Flynn was a decendant of Fletcher Christian, the character he plays in this film. This incident in history has also been explored in “Mutiny on the Bounty”, in 1935 with Charles Laughton and Clarke Gable and in 1962 Trevor Howard and Marlon Brando and again in “The Bounty” 1984 with Anthony Hopkins and Mel Gibson.