On the deck of theHMS Providence, Barbossa announced their destination to the fearful crew - Whitecap Bay, home of mermaids ("sea ghouls, devil fish, dreadful in hunger for flesh of man"), and urged them to have courage for he King""s mission...The film opens and immediately identifies itself as a fairy tale.There is a spotlighted red-leather coveredPinocchiostorybook sitting upright on a desk or table, amidst a wax candle in a holder, a jar, an inkwell with feather pen, a pair of spectacles, a pipe, a second candle holder (without a candle), and two other books (for wo future Disney animated projects -Alice in WonderlandandPeter Pan).He protests to the Headmaster and doctor that there was "interference" and he is really "sound as a bell.]Directed on location (on the Ruiki in the then Belgian Congo and the British protectorate of Uganda) by John Huston (it was his ninth feature film and fifth film with Bogart), the film was nominated for four Academy Awards - Best Actress (Katharine Hepburn), Best Screenplay (James Agee and John Huston), Best Director, and Best Actor (Humphrey Bogart).I can""t get myself right.I wanted to look mellow and I look brittle.My face doesn""t compose well - it""s all highlights.How can I dim myself down, Leon? Suggest something.Oh, I""m so bored with this face.I wish I had someone else""s face.Whose face would you have if you had your choice? Oh well, I guess one gets the face one deserves.Her dapper boyfriend/lover, who shares her cynical view of love and a business partnership, is the suave and handsome playboy Count Leon D""Algout (Melvyn Douglas), who responds wittily: "There""s one marvelous advantage to your conversation, Swana.