Campbell Playhouse's

MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY

Produced, directed, scripted by Orson Welles 

Starring

Orson Welles

Plot:

The mutiny on the Bounty was a mutiny aboard a Royal Navy ship on 28 April 1789 which has been made famous by several books, films, and other media such as songs.

HMS Bounty sailed from Spithead, England on December 23, 1787 with Captain William Bligh and a crew of 45 men bound for Tahiti.  Their mission was to collect breadfruit plants to be transplanted in the West Indies as cheap food for the slaves.  After collecting those plants, Bounty was underway toward home, when, on the morning of April 28, 1789, Fletcher Christian and part of the crew mutinied, took over the ship, and set the Captain and 18 members of the crew adrift in the ship s 23-foot launch. The Captain sailed the launch and 17 of the crew 3618 miles back to civilization. The mutineers took HMS Bounty back to Tahiti, and, with 6 Polynesian men and 12 women, took the ship to the isolated site at Pitcairn Island. After burning the ship and a violent beginning, they established a settlement and colony on Pitcairn Island that still exists

The Mercury Theatre on the Air, a show featuring the acclaimed New York drama company founded by Orson Welles and John Houseman. In its brief run, it featured an impressive array of talents, including Agnes Moorehead, Bernard Herrmann, and George Coulouris. The show is famous for its notorious War of the Worlds broadcast, but the other shows in the series are relatively unknown.

The show first broadcast on CBS and CBC in July 1938. It ran without a sponsor until December of that year, when it was picked up by Campbell s Soup and renamed The Campbell Playhouse.

Approximate play time of 66 minutes.

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 Broadcast History : July 11th, 1938 - December 4th, 1938
CBS. 60 Minutes. Mondays at 9:00pm until September 11th.
Sundays at 8:00pm thereafter.

Became The Campbell Playhouse as of December 9th, 1938

June 7th - September 13th, 1946
CBS. 30 minutes. Fridays at 10:00pm.
Pabst Beer

Cast :

Orson Welles, Martin Gabel, Ray Collins, Kenny Delmar, George Coulouris,
Edgar Barrier, Paul Stewart, Everett Sloane, Joseph Cotten, Hiram Sherman, Erskin Sanford,
Frank Readick, Agnes Moorehead, Alice Frost, Karl Swenson, William Alland, etc.

Announcer : Dan Deymour

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