Greene offers Egbert a "gambler""s chance on a percentage of the profits basis." Before making a decision, Egbert turns to the bartender to confirm his drunken and failing state of mind:Egbert: Was I in here last night and did I spend a twenty-dollar bill?Bartender: Yeah.Proody (Jack Kehler).His contact was crime lord "Uncle" Benny Chan (Kim Chan) (known for saying "Bloody marvelous") - and problems arose when their latest cargo freighter had been impounded by the Coast Guard ("a small delivery problem").] Tibbs also knew that a thermometer would easily determine the "loss of heat from the brain" - one of the best indicators of the amount of time elapsed since death.The rousing, 18th century story of the Bounty""s mutiny, directed by Frank Lloyd, was adapted from the first two volumes of the Charles Nordhoff-James Norman Hall 1932 best selling novelThe Bounty Trilogy(composed ofMutiny on the Bounty,Men Against the Sea, andPitcairn Island).