]Just one year after playing catcher "Crash" Davis inBull Durham (1988), Kevin Costner appeared in this second sports film - another baseball-themed pro-Americana film coupled with the religious themes of faith and redemption.The dinosaurs were very realistically-rendered and seamlessly integrated within live-action sequences.Also, the film""s wonderful musical score by Alfred Newman is unforgettable.Ronald Colman, Douglas Fairbanks, and English actor Robert Newton were all considered for the role eventually played by British stage actor Laurence Olivier.As the rest of the crew prepared to set sail, they heard a roaring sound and saw bursts of flames.Suddenly, the crew was attacked by a flying, fire-breathing, horned dragon.Onshore, Edmund was snatched and abducted, and flown over the island.He read words etched by fire in the ground: "I AM EUSTACE" - he tempted Eustace had been transformed into the creature by the green mist! The Pevensies, Caspian, and a few other crew members remained ashore for the night to keep Eustace company.(Wouk""s original novel of about 500 pages had already been the basis for a successful nationwide stage play titledThe Caine Mutiny Court Martial.