 Quints tale of the USS Indianapolis was conceived by playwright  Howard Sackler (qv), lengthened by screenwriter John Milius (qv)  and rewritten by Robert Shaw (I) (qv) following a disagreement  between screenwriters Peter Benchley (qv) and  Carl Gottlieb (I) (qv). Shaw presented his text, and Benchley and  Gottlieb agreed that this was exactly what was needed. Whoever was  responsible, Quint got the date of the sinking wrong, claiming it  was June 29, 1945, when in reality it was 12:14 am on July 30th,  1945. Universal has toyed with the idea of making the "Indianapolis"  incident into a film, using a young Quint as the lead, ever since.  Note that June 29, however, is the date (in the film) that the young  boy was eaten by the shark, as can be seen in the hand