There is no way in hell anyone is allowed to put his hands on an officer like this, or in any other way — period — but Kjars and Udo have a special relationship.

Speaking of officers — Jack Davenport, in his first appearance in the Pirates, etc., movie, gets the facial expressions and instincts of hierarchy exactly right.  He is cool, kindly, patronizing to the child of his superior, hard-browed and even cooler to his inferior — but the moment his superior shows up, he goes all worried-eyebrows.  I’ve never seen anybody else do it quite so well, if at all.

He’s rather wonderfully world-weary in the 21st-century Miss Marple series, as a cockney police superintendent.  His performances in the second pirate movie, and in the Around the World, etc., film, with Jackie Chan, are deliciously degraded.  Nobody quite does proper-man-gone-all-to-hell like he does.