More importantly, the film featured four future Oscar winners - Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Susan Hayward (in her film debut), and Broderick Crawford.Jack tricked Will into going onboard the ship in search of the key to unlock the chest.however, Jack also went onboard, and bargained with Davy Jones for his freedom while Will was held as a good faith payment and hostage: if Jack could find 100 souls within 3 days, they could be exchanged and brought into a "lifetime of servitude" to Jones - used to pay off Jack""s own blood debt.]In many ways, the film has become prophetic and mirrors he violence of contemporary news headlines.Notoriously, the film is linked to and may have triggered the political assassination (copy-cat) attempt by inconspicuous John Hinckley on President Ronald Reagan in 1981, illuminating his dangerous fixation on actress Jodie Foster, and resulting in the assassin""s infamous media-hero status.The shuttle landed on the rear platform of the dark structure.Inside, a black-cloaked figure, Vader""s servant Vanee (Martin Gordon) walked along a catwalk through airlocks o a steaming enclosure, flanked by two red-garbed royal guards.