He described how he had used and collaborated with bad guy Davian, at the center of the conspiracy, to sell the valuable McGuffin object to the US"" enemies in the Middle East: "In 18 hours, the Rabbit""s Foot will be delivered to its Middle Eastern buyer, and we""ll have credible intel to prove it.Dorothy peers over the top of aNew Yorker Magazine(with its trademark cover): "It""s he biggest contract I ever signed." The main romantic leads in the film, Hepburn and Grant, who had been successfully paired together in three previous films, Cukor""sSylvia Scarlett (1936)andHoliday (1938), and in Howard Hawks""Bringing Up Baby (1938), are pitted against each other and court each other in unlikely and tense situations.If you laid all these people end to end, figuring an average height of five feet six and a half inches, they would reach from Times Square to the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan.But when Jack thought hey had triumphed ("The ship is ours"), Blackbeard appeared from his cabin and magically (with his sword) hanged the mutinous crew with the ship""s rigging, although Jack and Philip weren""t harmed.