[Note: This was Toland's only career Oscar, although his acclaimed, deep-focus film echnique was also nominated in classics such asLes Miserables (1935),Dead End (1937),Intermezzo: A Love Story (1939),The Long Voyage Home (1940), andCitizen Kane (1941).Charles Laughton, who had won the Best Actor Oscar forThe Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), gave an exaggerated portrayal of the duty-obsessed, cruel and arrogant Captain Bligh - he made the character one of the screen's most memorable and abusive villains.[The film's end is bookended byThe Blue Danube Waltz, also played behind a black screen.] Afterwards, in the opening visual image, the camera pans upward from the pock-marked surface of the Moon in the foreground.I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy.I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence.