[This opening scene is symmetrical o the last one in the film, except that the character in the doorway is different.Morgan: Eddie was a good man on the boat before he got to be a rummy.Johnson: Well, he""s no good now...Is he related to you or something?Morgan: Nope.Johnson: What do you look after him for?Morgan: He thinks he""s lookin"" after me.Johnson is asked Eddie""s memorable, non-sensical question hat functions as a Rorschach personality/character test for the respondent - the personal initiation rite is repeated often in the film:Was you ever bit by a dead bee?.Two distracted ground-crewmen (Jerry and David Zucker) were on the tarmac, while one was guiding a large 747 airplane to a hangar with glowing sticks, and accidentally directed the plane into the terminal building.This black and white film received eleven Academy Award nominations - and won for the nominated director hisfirst and onlyBest Picture Oscar, beating out strong competition in 1940 fromThe Grapes of Wrath,The Great Dictator,The Philadelphia Story, and Hitchcock""s ownForeign Correspondent.Before they set sail in their third voyage together, Bligh ordered a flogging of a dead man, to punish the infraction to the letter of the law.