Scheming Barbossa had mutinied, marooned Jack on an isolated island to die (although he escaped three days later by making a raft of sea turtles - one of his tall tales), and stolen the cursed reasure of Cortes"" Aztec gold coins.The crisply-written screenplay (by Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein and Betty Reinhardt) was based on the play and novel of the same name by Vera Caspary.They are ready with fixed bayonets to go over the top for the assault.Memorably filmed like a documentary (without a sweeping musical score), the lengthy and fluid tracking shots follow him from behind, then from in front, as the bombardment increases - the air is full of mortar explosions, the sound of machine guns and rifle fire, and the whine of bombs.Now you tell your people to back off.Don""t you go being a smart Kaffir.Maybe we let you live, huh?" [Kaffir was an offensive racial slur - a South African term for a black person.They suggest the popular head of the state""s Boy Rangers, Jefferson Smith (an ""Everyman"" name, played by James Stewart), who is heroically responsible for single-handedly putting out a terrific forest fire around Sweetwater: "the biggest expert we got, wild game, animals.