The Caine Mutiny

[John Carsell]

This movie from 1954 has been a long time favorite of mine.

War movies usually put me to sleep, but this one has been the exception to the rule.

Humprey Bogart as Captain Queeg who is the paranoid skipper who takes over a beatin' up old tub from the junkyard Navy also has Van Johnson as 1st Liutenant and Fred Mac Murray as communications officer.

After Captain Queeg takes over, it becomes more and more apparent, that he is unfit to command a ship in the U.S. Navy.

If you've never seen it, by all means check it out.

I was courious of the movie only after I heard the original sountrack LP was the holy grail for soundtrack record collectors, no kidding!

My favorite line from the movie was Fred Mac Murray commenting that "If the strawberries had only been poisoned, all of our problems would be solved."

[Evan L]

Hi John,

Yes, this is a great film. Then again, I think ANYTHING with Bogart in it is worth watching. Such a versatile actor, and this film proves it, with Bogie's paranoia becoming more and more intense as the film progresses.

[Steve Hoffman]

Only an actor secure within himself could play such a part, or want to!

[Ed Bishop]

Originally posted by Steve Hoffman
Only an actor secure within himself could play such a part, or want to!

Very true, but let's not forget Fred MacMurray: rarely a heavy before(in cinema)or after(on TV), he played against type here as a scheming, scummy instigator of the lowest order. When he finally gets a drink thrown in his face, you think, 'A pistol might have been more fitting.' Very memorable movie; my father always dug the fact that Lee Marvin was one of the swabbies(once having been one himself).

ED:cool:

[Gardo]

I LOVE the turnaround at the end of the movie, where Jose Ferrer gets drunk and says what he really thinks. Rivals the turnaround near the end of Inherit the Wind, when William Jennings Bryan's wife turns on the young, smug couple and asks, "what do you know of the shape [I think that's the word] of a man's life?"

Right in the solar plexus, both of them.

[Gardo]

Originally posted by Ed Bishop


Very true, but let's not forget Fred MacMurray: rarely a heavy before(in cinema)or after(on TV), he played against type here as a scheming, scummy instigator of the lowest order. When he finally gets a drink thrown in his face, you think, 'A pistol might have been more fitting.' Very memorable movie; my father always dug the fact that Lee Marvin was one of the swabbies(once having been one himself).

ED:cool:

He's a pretty good heel in Double Indemnity as well!