An Australian film titled The Mutiny of the Bounty depicted the story of Captain Bligh and Fletcher Christian in 1916, nineteen years before the MGM film Mutiny on the Bounty won Best Picture. But the Charles Laughton/Clark Gable version is based on the 1932 novel Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, and it is unlikely that the makers were even aware of the 50 minute-long silent film's existence. Some Oscar quizzes list Mutiny on the Bounty as the first Oscar remake because the two films are based on the same historical event, but madbeast.com doesn't consider the 1935 Mutiny on the Bounty to be a remake of the 1916 silent film any more than the 1963 version of Cleopatra to be an adaptation of Shakespeare's play Antony and Cleopatra because they use the same historical events to base their stories on, or James Cameron's film of Titanic to be a remake of A Night to Remember for the same reason.

Another Australian film drew its inspiration from the Bounty's mutiny, the 1933 entry In the Wake of the Bounty. But the former was actually an hour long documentary of the contemporary inhabitants of Pitcairn Island, with only a few brief scenes of Fletcher Christian (incompetently played by a youthful Errol Flynn) and Captain Bligh thrown in to provide an historical context.

It is doubtful Olivier's film of Hamlet was influenced by any of the previous film versions (most of which were made during the silent era), but since all of the films of Hamlet used Shakespeare's play as the same literary source, they can reasonably be considered to be remakes of film adaptations dating back to the nineteenth century featuring actors like Sarah Bernhardt and Johnston Forbes-Robertson.