After sergeant major Williams has put the men through two days of what they feel is "sadistic and inhuman" treatment, gunner Graham is reading the book "Mutiny on the Bounty". When gunner Parkins has pointed out that he has seen the film "with Charles Laughton and Clark Gable", gunner Sugden has a feverish dream in which the men play different parts from the film in a spoofing way, with Williams having the role of Bligh.