When the producers agreed to include a disclaimer after the opening credits, assuring audiences there had never been a mutiny on a U.S. Instead, the independent producer Stanley Kramer took an option on the novel for $60,000. As the stresses of command increase, Queeg's paranoia and near insanity convince Executive Officer Steve Maryk, played by Van Johnson and other crew members that he should be relieved of command, raising subsequent charges of mutiny that are played out during a dramatic court martial.Īfter the success of Wouk's novel and subsequent stage play there was strong public interest in the projected film but initially the major studios were reluctant to spend money on the rights to a film which depicted the Navy in a less than flattering way, knowing that the Department of defense would demand revisions in exchange for cooperation. The basic storyline concerns a popular captain being replaced by an unstable and disturbed officer, Queeg, played by Humphrey Bogart. It is completely fictional but has become better known than the two actual U.S. The film depicts a mutiny and its consequences, aboard the minesweeper USS Caine in 1943. It is based on Herman Wouk's 1951 Pulitzer Prize winning novel "The Caine Mutiny" which Wouk had already made into a stage play, "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial," which ran for a year on Broadway from January 1954. Made in 1954, it was directed by Edward Dmytryk and stars Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer, Van Johnson and Fred MacMurray.
Navy minesweeper during the Second World War and the subsequent court-martial of two officers.
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' The Caine Mutiny' is a dramatic American movie about conflict and mutiny aboard a U.S.
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