The film itself often reverted to melodramatic style, with great character actors adopting static and unnatural attitudes, postures and gestures." Robie sat at an outdoor cafe overlooking the lake and spoke to his friend:Well, of all the seven deadly sins, jealousy is the most deadly.It""s an eighteen-hour rip, which breaks down into six shifts of three hours each.Or alternatively, we could break it down by mileage.There""s a, there""s a map on the visor that I""ve marked to show the locations where we can change shifts.The rousing, 18th century story of the Bounty""s mutiny, directed by Frank Lloyd, was adapted from the first two volumes of the Charles Nordhoff-James Norman Hall 1932 best selling novelThe Bounty Trilogy(composed ofMutiny on the Bounty,Men Against the Sea, andPitcairn Island)."During the credits sequence, the grisly body parts were taken to the Federal Morgue (in Youngstown, Ohio) for an autopsy, where the Coroner Phil (Richard Gant) examined the remains that had been subjected to "extreme explosive trauma" and had third-degree burns over much of the torso.