 Years later, in a conversation with the playwright George S.  Kaufman, Charles Laughton remarked that he had given such a good  performance in "Mutiny on the Bounty" because he came from a long  line of seafarers. Referring to Laughtons performance in "The  Hunchback of Notre Dame," Kaufman dryly commented, "I assume, then,  that you also came from a long line of hunchbacks?"