This is about the 1954 film. For the novel see The Caine Mutiny

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The movie 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 received Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Actor (Humphrey Bogart), 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). Bogart was denied his second Academy Award (he had won previously for The African Queen), losing to Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront. Dmytryk was also nominated for a Directors' Guild Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures. 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 ideology based on Marxism. ... Date: 30 March Host: Bob Hope; Thelma Ritter (New York City) Location: RKO Pantages Theatre, Los Angeles, California, USA NBC Century Theatre, New York, USA The Best Picture winner (of producer Sam Spiegel), director Elia Kazans semi-documentary, expose, and thriller, On The Waterfront (with twelve nominations and eight... Humphrey DeForest Bogart (December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957), an American actor of legendary fame who retained his legacy after death. ... Tom Tully (August 21, 1908 – April 27, 1982) is an actor. ... The African Queen is a 1951 movie. ... Marlon Brando at the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C Brando redirects here. ... On the Waterfront is an American 1954 film about mob violence and corruption among longshoremen, and it has become a standard of its kind. ...

Synopsis

The tale is of a mutiny aboard a fictitious 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, Lieutenant Commander Philip F. Queeg (Bogart), and his officers: dedicated but troubled executive officer Lieutenant Stephen Maryk (Van Johnson); cynical, duplicitous communications officer (and budding novelist) Lieutenant Thomas Keefer (Fred MacMurray); and callow assistant communicator Ensign 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. Mutiny is the crime of conspiring to disobey an order that a group of similarly-situated individuals (typically members of the military; or the crew of any ship, even if they are civilians) is legally obliged to obey. ... Combatants Allies: Soviet Union United States United Kingdom and others Axis Powers: Germany Japan Italy and others Commanders Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry S. Truman Winston Churchill Adolf Hitler Hideki Tojo Benito Mussolini Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000,000 Total dead: 50,000,000 Military... Paranoid redirects here. ... In the Royal Navy, United States Navy and United States Coast Guard, a lieutenant commander (lieutenant-commander or Lt Cdr in the RN) is a commissioned officer superior to a lieutenant and inferior to a commander. ... 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 (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. ...

After several shipboard incidents veering from petty (the theft of strawberries) to dangerous (an embarrassing gaffe during an exercise, in which Queeg furiously reprimands a sailor's appearance while the ship continues traveling in a circle and cuts a critical tow line), Keefer—only somewhat subtly—convinces Maryk to study Navy regulations regarding relieving an incapacitated captain of command—and Maryk takes over when the troubled Queeg appears unable to handle a typhoon that nearly capsizes the Caine. Cyclone Catarina, a rare South Atlantic tropical cyclone viewed from the International Space Station on March 26, 2004. ...

When they return to port, Maryk faces a court martial for mutiny. Proceedings do not go well; the self-serving Keefer is careful to deny any complicity. The defense counsel, Lieutenant Barney Greenwald (José Ferrer), has no choice but to call Queeg to the stand and get him to convict himself with his own paranoic testimony. 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. ...

After Maryk is acquitted, they celebrate at a hotel. A somewhat drunk Greenwald crashes the party and throws a drink in Keefer's face, denouncing him as the real instigator of the mutiny.

Trivia

• The Caine was played by the Navy destroyer-minesweeper USS Thompson (DD-627/DMS-38). This ship was not a 4-stack World War I era ship like the vessel in the novel because at the time the film was made, all such vessels had been scrapped.
• 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.
• 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 port of San Francisco. Following the opening credits, the epigraph states 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."
• 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.
• The novel The Caine Mutiny carries the story much further along in past and future, showing remarkable growth and maturity in the character of Willie Keith following the court-martial.
• After the novel's success, the court-martial sequence in the book was adapted into a full-length Broadway play, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, by its original author Herman Wouk. The play, directed by actor Charles Laughton, was a success on the stage in 1954, opening almost exactly five months before the release of the film The Caine Mutiny, which covers nearly the whole book, not just the court-martial scene. The stage version starred Lloyd Nolan as Queeg, John Hodiak as Maryk, and Henry Fonda as Greenwald. It has been revived twice on Broadway, and was presented on television in 1955, as a live presentation, and in 1988, as a made-for-television film.
• The novel goes into a great deal more detail about Willie Keith's experiences both in midshipman school and in his early relationship with his amorata May Wynn. After the court-martial, he returns to the Caine and we see his development into a tempered, capable Naval officer, which is barely hinted at in the film.

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External links

• The Caine Mutiny at the Internet Movie Database