I was asking because I thought of that movie this morning. I was telling Melva about the joke where the captain asks the doctor to choose between two weevils that were munching on the hard tack. When the doctor chose the longer one, the captain said, "I'm surprised at you, doctor! Everyone knows that you should always choose the lesser of two weevils!"
Then this afternoon she brought home the first book in the series by Patrick O'Brian!