The Biblical myth of Cain and Abel was modernized in this film.As in Steinbeck""s book and the Biblical story, the first letters of the main characters began with C and A:C: Cain - Caleb (or Cal)A: Abel - Aron, Adam, and AbraCain tilled the ground (as a farmer), while the favored and respected son Abel was a shepherd (keeper of sheep).After purging the island of slavery, reclaiming the Lone Islands, and before sailing off, Caspian was given Lord Bern""s magical sword - it was one of the seven swords from he Golden Age of Narnia, entrusted to the seven Telmarine lords by King Caspian IX.Singer Dick Powell was cast against type as the down-and-out, tough-talking, cynical PI Philip Marlowe - often making sarcastic, irreverent and disdainful comments about his predicament.Although Spock wanted to rendezvous with the Starfleet Federation, Kirk demanded immediate action against Nero, or otherwise it would be too late: "What we need to do is catch up to that ship, disable it, take it over, and get Pike back.In her bedroom, she studiously perused books on Texas with her younger sister Lacy (Carolyn Craig) far into the night, to read up on Bick""s far-away "country.