More parallels could be drawn between he alien in this film and Thomas Newton (David Bowie) in Nicolas Roeg""sThe Man Who Fell to Earth (1976, UK).We""re ired of hearing nothing but doom and despair on the radio." Mrs.Mitchell proposes that it be "something simple and real, something with hope in it." She finds her husband""s leatherbound diary and entrusts it to Ann: "There""s enough in it for a hundred speeches, things people ought to hear nowadays.When the dance is finished, he tells them: "All right scram, boys.I""ll meet you in the barber shop."Wagstaff has a strong talk with his son Frank, concerned about courting Connie Bailey (Thelma Todd), the college campus widow.[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.