Caine Mutiny - 1954
Cats: Set Your Recorders, Drama, Bogart|In Caine Mutiny Mr. Bogart plays the quintessential Navy Captain who is losing his marbles. In one of the most tragic and sympathetic performances of a man breaking down sanity-wise on a witness stand, Mr. Bogart moved the studio crew to a thunderous round of applause when the scene was finished. The film took a year to complete which was unheard of at the time. Producer Stanley Kramer had to tip toe around the Department of Defense as they were very upset with the subject matter - a mutiny aboard a United States Naval vessel. The D.O. D. would have pulled any assistance away from the production had not two things happened. The first was that producer Kramer placed a comment in the opening credits stating that there had never been a mutiny on a United States Naval vessel and that the Herman Wouk novel won the Pulitzer Prize.
The rest of the cast is terrific.Van Johnson is the leader of the mutiny when it becomes evident that Captain Queeg is making all the wrong decisions during a typhoon. Fred MacMurray is the sleazy Lt. Tom Keefer who deserves that drink thrown in his face by Jose Ferrer. Mr. Ferrer has one of the best drunken / angry lawyer monologues ever written or performed on screen.
This picture was a spectacular return for director Edward Dmytrck who as one of the original Hollywood Ten.
Wednesday March 19th at 8:00 PM on Turner Classic Movies
