After being rewarded with the job of bank guard (""dick"") o prevent future holdups, he involves his prospective son-in-law as a temporary embezzler when suckered by a con salesman to embezzle bank funds to finance a purchase of Beefsteak Mines stock - a fly-by-night mining enterprise.His absorbing, flamboyant, overwrought potboiler films were noted for their glossy and excessive style, soap opera-ish and brightly-colored film noirish characteristics, and exaggerated and overheated emotions.At 129 minutes, it was the shortest of the existing POTC films.Its production budget was $230 million.The box-office results were modest in the US: $172.6 million (domestic) and $794.9 million (worldwide).At the time, it was the second lowest-grossing film of the series.With the tagline: "All pirates must die."Although co-stars Orlando Bloom (as Will Turner) and Keira Knightley (as Elizabeth Swann) had said they wouldn""t return o the franchise and were missing from the previous film, they both appeared in the film.]He is in despair because his absent, divorced parents have abandoned him to the black maid/housekeeper.(The O""Connells were teamed up with Ming, once he heard them say the name Zi Yuan, and they assisted in the fight with "20th century" weapons.