Publisher's Summary Having inspired a classic film and Broadway play, The Caine Mutiny is Herman Wouk's boldly dramatic, brilliantly entertaining novel of life—and mutiny—on a … First edition . The Caine Mutiny is not distinctive filmmaking or storytelling, and its idea of ethical debate is relying on familiar archetypes and arguments. Wounded naval aviator Barney Greenwald, a lawyer in civilian life, reluctantly becomes Maryk's defense counsel after eight Navy lawyers turn down the assignment. The novel focuses on the gradual maturation of Willie Keith, a rich New Yorker assigned to the USS Caine. Certificate: Passed [12] This included the conversion of two soon to be decommissioned destroyer/destroyer minesweepers, USS Thompson (DD-627/DMS-38) and USS Doyle (DD-494/DMS-34/), as facsimiles to portray the USS Caine. Herman Wouk had already adapted his novel as a stage play, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, which premiered on Broadway in January 1954 and ran for more than a year. Take a look ahead at some of our most anticipated superhero series arriving in 2021 and beyond. During World War II, American expatriate Harry Morgan helps transport a French Resistance leader and his beautiful wife to Martinique while romancing a sensuous lounge singer. In the courtroom scene, Bogart's Queeg seems oblivious of his own mounting hysteria. [23], The original soundtrack album for The Caine Mutiny was not officially released until 2017, and copies of the soundtrack made before that are very rare. During the filming of the scene off Oahu in which Maryk swims fully clothed to retrieve a line, his character is warned that there are sharks in the water; these sharks do not appear on camera, but the actor's life was saved when a real-life Navy rifleman shot one which was approaching. In the waning days of World War II, the United States Navy cargo ship Reluctant and her crew are stationed in the "backwater" areas of the Pacific Ocean. Vote for most unfair Best Picture verdict! The 1951 Pulitzer Prize winner for Literature, The Caine Mutiny was written by Herman Wouk. Set in the Pacific theatre of World War II, the film depicts the events on board a fictitious U.S. Navy destroyer-minesweeper and the subsequent court-martial of its executive officer for mutiny. During the World War II, the crew of a small insignificant ship in the U.S. Pacific Fleet experience an event unlike any event ever experienced by the United States Navy. [9] Lee Marvin was cast as one of the sailors, not only for his acting, but also because of his knowledge of ships at sea. In this essay I go through the movie and book and illustrate my point with quotations from it. He deliberately gives Queeg the mannerisms and appearance of an officer of sternness and decision, and then gradually discloses him as a man who is bottling up a scream, a man who never meets another's eyes. Roberts later quit the production after being told to cut the screenplay so the film could be kept to two hours. John D. Feerick, former dean of Fordham University School of Law, who assisted in drafting the amendment, told The Washington Post in 2018 that the film was a “live depiction” of the type of crisis that could arise "if a president ever faced questions about physical or mental inabilities but disagreed completely with the judgment," which was not dealt with in the Constitution. When strawberries go missing from the officers' mess, Queeg convenes an elaborate investigation to determine the culprit, recalling an incident earlier in his career when he received a commendation for uncovering the theft of food. A Ship's Captain is removed from command by his Executive Officer in an apparent outright act of mutiny. The film was also nominated for a Golden Lion Award at the 15th Venice International Film Festival. Speaking to his agent from a telephone box in Leicester Square in London, he looked around for inspiration. It is one of … Some consider him an extremely competent officer, but he has a terrible attitude toward the service, and carries out his duties badly. The result, he argued, was that the court-martial became "an anticlimax" as it repeated Queeg's visible collapse seen in the typhoon but still considered the core of the film "smartly and stingingly played" and "though somewhat garbled" was still "a vibrant film. [10] Independent producer Stanley Kramer purchased the rights himself for an estimated $60,000 – $70,000. [13][14][15][16], The Caine Mutiny would be the first feature role in Robert Francis's short four-film Hollywood career, as he was killed when the private plane he was piloting crashed shortly after takeoff from Burbank Airport in California on July 31, 1955. "[7], The film and novel influenced the drafters of the 25th Article Of Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which set forth conditions for removing the President of the United States. The legendary actor played the main lead in Caine Mutiny where he portrayed the role of Lieutenant Commander Philip Francis Queeg, the executive being court-martial for mutiny. Keefer, believing Queeg to be paranoid, encourages Maryk to consider relieving Queeg on the basis of mental incapacity under Article 184 of Navy Regulations. Ignoring the helmsman's repeated warnings, he allows the Caine to turn in a full circle and cut the towline, setting the target adrift. A Ship's Captain is removed from command by his Executive Officer in an apparent outright act of mutiny. RCA Victor planned an LP release with musical excerpts on the first side and the complete dialogue of the climactic court-martial scene on side two, but Herman Wouk believed that including this scene was an infringement on his recently opened Broadway play dealing with the court-martial. When Keefer is trusted with the role of captain, he proves to be just as bad as Queeg. 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