This mystery-romance is a tale about the search for missing and stolen gold treasure worth $250,000 by five survivors of WWII who were in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) together, and are now threatening the newly-widowed and estranged wife of one of the accomplices.(Co-stars Winger and Lithgow competed against MacLaine and Nicholson.)The other nominations included Best Actress (Debra Winger), Best Supporting Actor (John Lithgow), Best Art Direction, Best Sound, Best Film Editing, and Best Original Score.You just take all the pieces and put ""em together one by one, and first hing you know, you got an automobile (he pauses) or a murderer.[Note: It was the first (and best) of the filmic versions of the familiar tale.Of the various film versions of the ale,The Bounty (1985), starring Anthony Hopkins as Bligh and Mel Gibson as Fletcher Christian, was the most accurate.When they are within sight of the steep cliffs of the escarpment, the explorers come upon the bodies of Pierce and Van Ness, hung upside down and tortured.