The Caine Mutiny, a 1954 movie directed by Edward Dmytryk, and based on Herman Wouk's Pulitzer Prize-winning (1951), best-selling novel and subsequent stage hit (The Caine Mutiny Court Martial), provided Humphrey Bogart with the next-to-last great role of his acting career and a spectacular comeback for Dmytryk, formerly one of the Hollywood Ten who first declined but subsequently agreed to speak of his past as a member of the American Communist Party. The film earned Bogart an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, one of seven Oscar nominations the film received. Dmytryk was also nominated for a Directors' Guild Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures. Image File history File links The Caine Mutiny DVD cover Source: Amazon. ... Edward Dmytryk (September 4, 1908 - July 1, 1999) was an American film director who was amongst the Hollywood 10, a group of blacklisted film industry professionals who served time in prison for being in contempt of Congress during the McCarthy era red scare. ... Stanley Kramer (September 29, 1913 – February 19, 2001) was a Jewish-American film director and producer. ... Herman Wouk (May 27, 1915 —) is a bestselling American author with a number of notable novels to his credit, including The Caine Mutiny, The Winds of War, and War and Remembrance. ... Humphrey DeForest Bogart (25 December 1899 – January 14, 1957), an American actor of legendary fame. ... José Ferrer José Vicente Ferrer de Otero y Cintrón (January 8, 1909 – January 26, 1992), was an actor and film director, born in Santurce, Puerto Rico. ... Van Johnson Van Johnson (born Charles Van Johnson on August 25, 1916, in Newport, Rhode Island) is an American film and television actor. ... Fred MacMurray Fred MacMurray (August 30, 1908 – November 5, 1991) was a Hollywood actor who appeared in over one hundred movies, during a career that lasted from the 1930s to the 1970s. ... Robert Charles Francis (February 26, 1930 - July 31, 1955) was an American actor. ... Tom Tully (August 21, 1908 – April 27, 1982) is an actor. ... Everett Gunnar Marshall (June 18, 1910 - August 24, 1998) was an American actor who starred in 1957 movie 12 Angry Men. Marshall was born in Owatonna, Minnesota. ... Columbia Pictures current logo. ... June 24 is the 175th day of the year (176th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 190 days remaining. ... 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Edward Dmytryk (September 4, 1908 - July 1, 1999) was an American film director who was amongst the Hollywood 10, a group of blacklisted film industry professionals who served time in prison for being in contempt of Congress during the McCarthy era red scare. ... Herman Wouk (May 27, 1915 —) is a bestselling American author with a number of notable novels to his credit, including The Caine Mutiny, The Winds of War, and War and Remembrance. ... The gold medal awarded for Public Service in Journalism The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical compositions. ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... Humphrey DeForest Bogart (25 December 1899 – January 14, 1957), an American actor of legendary fame. ... The Hollywood Ten was a group of American screenwriters, actors, and directors, alleged members of the Communist Party, who were convicted of contempt of Congress during the height of the Red Scare. ... In modern usage, a communist party is a political party which promotes communism, the sociopolitical philosophy based on Marxism. ... Academy Awards The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent film awards in the United States and most watched awards ceremony in the world. ...

The tale is of a mutiny aboard a fictitious, war-weary World War II U.S. Navy destroyer minesweeper, the U.S.S. Caine (DMS-18), provoked by the ongoing tensions between a by-the-book, battle-fatigued, isolated and paranoid captain, Lt. Cmdr. Philip F. Queeg (Bogart), and his officers: dedicated but troubled executive officer Lt. Stephen Maryk (Van Johnson); cynical, duplicitous communications officer (and budding novelist) Lt. Thomas Keefer (Fred MacMurray); and callow assistant communicator Ens. Willie Keith (Robert Francis), whose coming of age from spoiled society brat to mature seaman and combat veteran is half the framework in which Queeg's demise is viewed. The other half is Maryk, formerly a loyal executive officer but slowly coming to terms with Keefer's continuous, apparently well-measured criticisms. In time, after several shipboard incidents veering from petty (the infamous strawberries theft) to dangerous (an embarrassing gaffe during a sea escort, in which Queeg furiously reprimanded a bridge officer's incomplete appearance while the ship continued traveling in a circle and cut a critical tow line), Keefer—only somewhat subtly—convinces Maryk to study Navy regulations regarding relieving an incapacitated captain of command—and Maryk has the opportunity when the troubled, battle-exhausted Queeg appears dissembling and terrorised in a typhoon that nearly capsizes the Caine. Mutiny is the crime of conspiring to disobey orders that the mutineer is legally obliged to obey, for example by crew members of a ship. ... Combatants Allies: Poland, British Commonwealth, France/Free France, Soviet Union, United States, China, and others Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan, and others Casualties Military dead: 17 million Civilian dead: 33 million Total dead: 50 million Military dead: 8 million Civilian dead: 4 million Total dead: 12 million World War II... Paranoid redirects here. ... Philip Francis Queeg is a fictional character played by Humphrey Bogart in the 1954 film, The Caine Mutiny. ... Van Johnson Van Johnson (born Charles Van Johnson on August 25, 1916, in Newport, Rhode Island) is an American film and television actor. ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... Fred MacMurray Fred MacMurray (August 30, 1908 – November 5, 1991) was a Hollywood actor who appeared in over one hundred movies, during a career that lasted from the 1930s to the 1970s. ... Robert Charles Francis (February 26, 1930 - July 31, 1955) was an American actor. ... Cyclone Catarina, a rare South Atlantic tropical cyclone viewed from the International Space Station on March 26, 2004. ...

The actors didn't exactly match Wouk's original physical descriptions of their characters but were otherwise cast strongly—and, in MacMurray's case, surprisingly, MacMurray playing against type as the duplicitous Keefer, whose implausible denial on the witness stand during Maryk's court-martial leaves the defence no recourse but to let the tortured Queeg convict himself with his own dissembling, paranoid testimony.

The Caine Mutiny earned Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Tom Tully as Captain DeVriess, the first captain of the Caine), Best Screenplay, Best Sound Recording, Best Film Editing, and Best Dramatic Score (Max Steiner). None of the nominations won; Bogart was denied his second Academy Award (he had won previously for The African Queen); he lost to Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront as Best Actor; Jose Ferrer turned in a stellar supporting performance as the Navy attorney assigned reluctantly to defend mutineers Maryk and Keith; E.G. Marshall turned in an equivalent performance as the court martial's lead prosecutor. The title role, the Caine itself, was played by the Navy destroyer-minesweeper USS Thompson (DMS-38). Tom Tully (August 21, 1908 – April 27, 1982) is an actor. ... This article is about the movie. ... Marlon Brando at the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C Marlon Brando, Jr. ... On the Waterfront is an American 1954 film about mob violence and corruption among longshoremen, and became a standard of its kind. ... José Vicente Ferrer de Otero y Cintron, known as José Ferrer (January 8, 1912-January 26, 1992), was an actor and director, born in Santurce, Puerto Rico. ... Everett Gunnar Marshall (June 18, 1910 - August 24, 1998) was an American actor who starred in 1957 movie 12 Angry Men. Marshall was born in Owatonna, Minnesota. ... USS Pivot (AM 276) World War II United States Admirable Class Minesweeper shown in the Gulf of Mexico on sea trials 12 July 1944 Image:Hameln Class. ... The second USS Thompson (DD-627/DMS-38), named in honor of Robert Means Thompson, was first a Gleaves-class destroyer, then became an Ellyson-class minesweeper. ...

The Navy initially objected to the film's depiction of a mentally unbalanced man as the captain of one of its ships and the word "mutiny" in the film's title. But after the script was altered somewhat, the Navy cooperated with Columbia Pictures by providing ships, planes, combat boats, and access to Pearl Harbor and the San Francisco port. Following the opening credits, the epigraph claims that the film's story is non-factual. No ship named USS Caine ever existed, and no Navy captain has been relieved of command at sea under Articles 184-186: "There has never been a mutiny in a ship of the United States Navy. The truths of this film lie not in its incidents but in the way a few men meet the crisis of their lives." Seal The United States Department of the Navy was established by an Act of Congress on April 30, 1798, to provide administrative and technical support, and civilian leadership to the United States Navy and Marine Corps. ... Columbia Pictures current logo. ... Satellite image of Pearl Harbor. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ...

Trivia

• The ship was named for a fictitious Navy Commander, Arthur Wingate Caine, who died in battle while serving aboard another fictitious ship, the USS Jones. The Jones—portrayed briefly by the minesweeper USS Surfbird (AM-383)—is the ship that the Caine races back to port against during a minesweeping exercise early in the film. Admiral Halsey's unnamed flagship was portrayed by the USS Kearsarge (CV-33), a post-War aircraft carrier launched in 1946; a number of World War II-era fighter planes were placed atop the flight deck for filming purposes.
• Michael Caine (born Maurice Micklewhite) changed his name to Michael Scott when he first became an actor. He happened to be speaking to his agent in a telephone box in London's Leicester Square when he was informed that he had to change his name again because another actor was already using the name Michael Scott. His agent insisted that he come up with a new name immediately. Looking around for inspiration, he noted that The Caine Mutiny was being shown at the Odeon Cinema, and so he decided to change his name to Michael Caine.
• Edward Dmytryk spent time in prison as one of the Hollywood Ten, writers and filmmakers sent to prison for refusing to answer questions of the House Committee on Un-American Activities about their ties to the Communist Party. After his release, Dmytryk spoke of his own Party past (a very brief membership in 1945, and pressure from other members to insinuate Communist propaganda into his work) and identified 26 other Party members, in a second appearance before the House committee. He spent some time in England, and Stanley Kramer hired him to direct a few low-budget films before handing Dmytryk The Caine Mutiny. The film's success resurrected Dmytryk's career once and for all. He went from there to direct, among others, Raintree County, The Young Lions, a remake of the Marlene Dietrich classic The Blue Angel, and The Carpetbaggers, among others. Dmytryk died in 1999.
• Fred MacMurray went on to spend over a decade as the gentle, widowed father of three spunky sons on the CBS situation comedy My Three Sons.
• The supporting character of Ens. Barney Harding—whose strumming a ukelele singing a sarcastic song, "Yellowstain Blues," after Capt. Queeg inexplicably ordered a dye marker thrown off the stern during the exercise—was played by Jerry Paris. Paris later became familiar as the wiseguy next-door-neighbor dentist Jerry Helper on The Dick Van Dyke Show—and as a successful television director whose credits included numerous episodes of The Odd Couple and Happy Days.
• According to MovieMistakes.com, no ship in the U.S. Navy during World War II was capable of traveling in a circle tight enough to cut its own tow line, as the Caine was depicted doing.

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External links

• The Caine Mutiny at The Internet Movie Database
• Study Guide of Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny