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This Day in Pop Culture for November 8

On this day in pop culture history, there was "Mutiny on the Bounty", "All the King's Men" opened in theaters, and Fonzie got ...
Everyone knows the story of the Mutiny on the Bounty - heroic rebels overthrowing a tyrant. But the truth is far stranger, darker, and far more tragic than the Hollywood versions ever show. Lieutenant ...
I THINK I must have had some sort of hunch that this kind of book might appear. In the summer of 1930, in a small country bookshop in Essex, England, I picked up a copy of the famous old Barrow’s ...
Hollywood made a few big-budget tropically themed films in the '60s. One was "Mutiny on the Bounty," the story of a dictatorial ship's captain who provokes his loyal lieutenant, Fletcher Christian ...
The 1935 version of Mutiny On the Bounty offered plenty of cameos of Southern California. (James Cagney got in the movie simply by sailing along at an opportune moment.) Certain tropical scenes were ...