Chief inventor, gadget-guru, and head of R&D, Fox showed Wayne some of the prototypes previously developed, including a grapple gun, and an experimental armored survival bodysuit - future accoutrements for caped hero Batman.DeVriess: You, uh, saw yourself on a carrier, or a battleship, no doubt.Keith: Yes sir, I had hoped that ---DeVriess: Well, I onlyhopethat you""re good enough for theCaine.Keith: I shall try to be worthy of this assignment, sir.DeVriess: She""s not a battleship or a carrier; theCaineis a beaten-up tub.After 18 months of combat, it takes 24 hours a day just to keep her in one piece.Keith was assigned to follow the smooth-talking, sarcastic Lt.Keefer for a tour of the obsolete and "beaten-up" tub.Although heCainehad been designed to be a minesweeper, it hadn""t been used to sweep mines in a year and a half:The first thing you""ve got to learn about this ship is that she was designed by geniuses to be run by idiots.During a one to five year state prison term, he escaped in 1939 and was re-arrested in 1940 and released in 1941." The lab was responsible for testing and medicating agents in the US Department of Defense""s newer black ops program, Operation Outcome, led by Byer.The film had four Academy Award nominations with one Oscar win - (Best Color Cinematography - Leon Shamroy) - it was rare hat the dark film noir was filmed in such exquisite Technicolor.