Mutiny (1952)

During the war of 1812, a sea captain (Mark Stevens) and his first mate (Patric Knowles) run the British blockade to France where they are to pick up ten million in gold to assist the war effort. However, the return trip proves dangerous as the crew plots a mutiny to steal the gold and there's the first mate's treacherous ex-flame (Angela Lansbury), who wants her cut of the gold. This minor "B" seafaring adventure has some impressive talent behind the camera: director Edward Dmytryk (who would direct THE CAINE MUTINY two years later), Oscar winning composer Dimitri Tiomkin (HIGH NOON) and cinematographer Ernest Laszlo (IT'S A MAD MAD MAD WORLD). But it remains a diverting potboiler, nothing more with stock characters and situations. With more impressive production values and more charismatic male leads than Stevens and Knowles, this might have been more fun than it is. With Gene Evans, Rhys Williams, Morris Ankrum and Denver Pyle.