He imagined the items on a sample food tray that he now couldn""t afford fading away and disappearing one by one.The uniformed, bossy commander of the ship, Admiral Robertson (Warren Muson), had aspirations not shared by his teenaged, graduating son Sean Robertson (Scott Reeves), about his captaining of the ship.]Anglo-Austrian director Frederick Baker created a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the making of the film, including interviews, with the documentary essayShadowing the Third Man (2004).] Presumably, he Academy felt obligated to honor one of filmdom""s greatest directors (DeMille) with the Best Picture Oscar, as his career was coming to an end.