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The Caine Mutiny [DVD] [1954]

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Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Jos� Ferrer, Van Johnson, Fred MacMurray, Robert Francis
Directors: Edward Dmytryk
Writers: Herman Wouk, Michael Blankfort, Stanley Roberts
Producers: Stanley Kramer
Format: Black & White, Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen
Language English
Subtitles: Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number of discs: 1
Classification: U
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
DVD Release Date: 27 Sep 1999
Run Time: 119 minutes

Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)

ASIN: B00004D0H9
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 8,745 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Humphrey Bogart is heartbreaking as the tragic Captain Queeg in this 1954 film, based on a novel by Herman Wouk, about a mutiny aboard a navy ship during World War II. Stripped of his authority by two officers under his command (played by Van Johnson and Robert Francis) during a devastating storm, Queeg becomes a crucial witness at a court martial that reveals as much about the invisible injuries of war as anything. Edward Dmytryk (Murder My Sweet, Raintree County) directs the action scenes with a sure hand and nudges his all-male cast toward some of the most well-defined characters of 1950s cinema. The courtroom scenes alone have become the basis for a stage play (and a television movie in 1988), but it is a more satisfying experience to see the entire story in context. --Tom Keogh

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Dolby Digital Mono
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4.0 out of 5 stars don't forget fred mcmurray, 24 Mar 2005

By	john souray (london United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

I don't want to take issue with the claim that Bogart is the best actor in the cast (review above), but you can't overlook the underrated Fred McMurray (yes, as in Flubber and the TV series My Three Sons). Lovers of the novel will know that it is Keefer, not Queeg (Bogart) who is the real villain. At the end of the day, Queeg is no more than an ordinary man promoted beyond his competence; it is the cynical, superficially witty novelist Keefer who provokes the mutiny, and having led less clever, more honest men to this dangerous end, carefully distances himself from any responsibility. McMurray turns in the slimiest of performances, outdoing even his overbearing bullying boss in Wilder's The Apartment (with Jack Lemmon and Shirley Maclaine). A truly memorable screen villain, all the more powerful for coming from an actor better known for light comedy.

Jose Ferrer, as the defence counsel, Greenwald, deserves an honourable mention as well. No mere two hour film could do justice to the richness and subtlety of Wouk's novel, but this is as decent a stab as you could hope for.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Truly Gripping Bogart!!!, 15 Sep 2003

By	Jennifer A. McFarland "jnnfmcfrl" (Poconos PA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is a masterpiece of cinema. A MUST SEE, hands down. The beauty of it is that although Bogart is obviously the best actor in the cast--- he was more than content to play someone not in control and be more in the background than he was accustomed to doing. The scene in the courtroom is a classic, tense and gripping! The famous scene is well remembered for Bogie's losing it all and yet unsuccessfully trying to hold himself in check by rotating a pair of metal marbles...showing through his insanity. This is a must have for any classic film collector and a crowning jewel for Bogart. Don't miss this one!!!

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4.0 out of 5 stars Those yellow stain blues..., 11 Sep 2009

By	Matthew Mercy (Wigan, England) - See all my reviews

Starring Humphrey Bogart in one of his best and most famous film roles, The Caine Mutiny was directed by Edward Dmytryk in 1954, and is based on an acclaimed novel by Herman Wouk; however, far from being an integral part of a larger triumph, Bogart's highly impressive performance is largely responsible for all the plaudits this otherwise unfocused and overrated movie often receives.
Bogart stars as Lieutenant Commander Phillip Francis Queeg, a Naval officer who is placed in charge of the badly-maintained and slackly run USS Caine. Whilst his initial attempts to restore order and enforce Navy regulations on board the ship meet with some success, Queeg quickly betrays a psychological instability that manifests itself repeatedly before the increasingly worried crew; he eventually suffers a mental breakdown during a terrifying storm, and when his Executive Officer, Lieutenant Maryk (Van Johnson), takes control of the ship, he finds himself on a charge of mutiny...
Bogart, who campaigned heavily for this role, is highly impressive as he displays Queeg's gradual descent into extreme paranoia and cowardice; ostensibly the 'villain' of the film, it is impossible not to feel a great deal of sympathy for Queeg as he suffers the scorn of his officers, becomes the butt of his crew's jokes, and eventually goes to pieces whilst giving evidence against Maryk at his court-martial. Unlike, say, Edward Albert's deliberately vile performance as the wretched Captain Cooley in Robert Aldrich's similarly-themed Attack! (1955), Bogart's unstable Queeg is a recognisable figure, an able man who has been unfortunately used passed his breaking point by the Navy and the demands of the war effort. It is a testament to Bogart's skill as an actor that although, at fifty-four, he's far too old for the role (and throughout filming, was battling the cancer that would soon kill him), he commands the screen in his usual fashion.
However, after considering Bogart's contribution to the film, there isn't actually all that much else about it that impresses the viewer. It is one of those movies, like The Searchers, in which the leading actor's performance is streets ahead of all the others in the film. Johnson is largely unmemorable as the sour-faced Maryk (a character significantly softened and made far more conventionally heroic than he was in the original novel), and Fred MacMurray irritates as the sarcastic Lieutenant Keefer (primarily because he isn't objectionable enough throughout the film, so that when the script attempts to paint him as the real 'villain' at the climax, it feels forced). Robert Francis is spectacularly bland as Ensign Keith, the young officer who sides with Maryk, and he's central to the movie's most catastrophic miscalculation, the shoe-horning in of a superfluous romantic angle that has absolutely no bearing on the main story (though this is merely a sub-plot that is repeated from the original novel); his nondescript 'puppy love' scenes with showgirl May Wynn (starlet Donna Lee Hickey got the role and adopted the character's name as her own professional one, and ironically, in the original novel 'May Wynn' is merely the character's stage name) are totally pointless. Jose Ferrer is very good as Lieutenant Greenwald, Maryk's defending counsel, but he only turns up twenty-five minutes from the end, and has a very small amount of screen time for a second-billed actor.
The Caine Mutiny oversimplifies its source material and feels decidedly half-baked; by casting the uninteresting Francis as Keith and telling the story largely from the conflicted Maryk's point of view, it misses the main thrust of the original's narrative (the development of Keith from accident-prone Ensign to competent Naval officer), and instead forces the audience to latch onto Bogart's Queeg as the focal point of the film. Queeg may be eventually proved to be mentally unstable, but he is at least a disciplined military professional, unlike the slovenly and inefficient crew of the Caine; I'm not sure if the viewer is meant to find their initial appearance and lack of respect for authority and regulations endearing, but the fact remains that any sensible members of the audience would not. With this in mind, the very end of the film, in which Keith breathes a sigh of relief when he finds himself again serving under the Caine's original, inefficient Captain, is particularly confusing.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Aboard my ship, excellent performance is standard, standard performance is sub-standard, and sub-standard performance is not per

First time I saw this film I didn't get it. You were expected to side with the officers of the Caine against the captain who was showing very unusual behaviour... Read more

Published 3 months ago by Peter Wade

5.0 out of 5 stars Caine Mutiny
Bogart is superb, and so is Ferrer. Lee mMrvin is no western crook this time, but a plain belivabel sailor. This is a film everybody should have in his collection.

Published 6 months ago by Jan Rockstad

5.0 out of 5 stars bogart at his finest
Just a short review to say this is one of Bogarts finest movies and its good too see him out of the trenchcoat and hat for a change
also of note are the supporting cast who... Read more

Published 7 months ago by Richard Scott

2.0 out of 5 stars oh the soundtrack
did not know what to expect,distracting love interest,main actors hold attention, and bogie playing weak allways worth watching but what a naff soundtrack, and the caine seemed to... Read more

Published on 18 April 2006 by N. J. Crick

2.0 out of 5 stars Good acting, bad script
Herman Wouk used to produce this type of thing a lot, I believe. The "Mutiny" has Bogart as an obsessed Captain Queeg, intent on running the ship his way. Read more

Published on 14 Nov 2001 by Jonathan Bryce

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