While berating and angry at Seaman "Horrible" Lugatch (Claude Akins) on the bridge and reprimanding Ensign Keith as well, the preoccupied Queeg kept ordering the navigating helmsman Stillwell (Todd Karns) to faithfully keep on course, not realizing that the ship was steaming aimlessly around in a circular path ("right standard rudder").Also, it paved the way for extended dance sequences in Gene Kelly's and Stanley Donen's classicSingin' in the Rain (1950), and it was often referenced inA Chorus Line.Film Notables (Awards, Facts, etc.)With a production budget of $54 million, and box-office gross receipts of $108 million (domestic).Warner Bros.released the film in Europe at the end of 1980, but waited about seven months later to release it in the summer of 1981 in the US.Outside the post-office, the young boy identifies he mailman who delivered the school letter, and the startled postal delivery man is threatened: "From now on, any letter from that school to that kid's house comes directly here.