and never repaired. The boat still lies decaying on the southwest shore of Cayman Brac. Reputation and reappraisal If Crowhurst had finished the race, his fake coordinates would undoubtedly have been exposed and he would have been treated as a fraud, in addition to being in probable financial ruin. From his surviving logbooks it is unclear whether his eventual presumed suicide was to avoid having to confront such a situation and/or to seek an "honourable" exit without disrespecting his family, or whether his final metaphysical ramblings, which could also be interpreted as evidence of mental instability, led to his abandoning the world and his body in search of a more spiritual objective. Either way, near-contemporary accounts of his actions were not particularly sympathetic. The 1970 book The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst by two Sunday Times journalists is described as "largely unflattering" in a recent account. Some more recent commentators have viewed Crowhurst as a well-intentioned but tragic figure who became caught up in a situation that was initially of his own making but that he could not control. James Marsh, the director of the film The Mercy, has said: "He made a pretty good go at sailing round the world. He stayed out in the ocean for the best part of seven months so all in all, he achieved much more than people ever thought he could, he just didn't achieve what his objective was. It was a case of over-reach, it was hubris and that is what caused the tragedy of his demise." Jonathan Raban has written that Tomalin and Hall wrote in 1970: In popular culture Movies and documentaries Donald Crowhurst – Sponsored for Heroism (1970) a BBC TV film written and narrated by Paul Foot and directed by Colin Thomas Horse Latitudes was a 1975 television movie about Crowhurst (called ‘’Philip Stockton, a Canadian’’ in the film). Alone was a 1979 BBC South West television documentary about Crowhurst with investigative journalist Jeremy James. The documentary aired on the tenth anniversary of Crowhurst's disappearance. The 1982 French movie Les Quarantièmes rugissants ("The Roaring Forties") is directly inspired by the Crowhurst story. The 1986 Soviet film Race of the Century gives a dramatic presentation of the events of the Golden Globe Race and the fate of Donald Crowhurst (Leonhard Merzin). The movie focuses on the idea of competition in a capitalist society as a soul-consuming "rat race",