The Caine Mutiny

The Caine Mutiny (1954)

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Brief Synopsis

In 1944, at his officer training graduation, Ensign Willie Keith attempts to keep his wealthy, clingy mother from learning of his serious involvement with nightclub singer May Wynn. Disappointed, May does not see Willie off as he sails from San Francisco to the naval base at Pearl Harbor. Upon arriving in Hawaii, Willie reports to his assigned ship, the U.S.S.  Caine , a beat-up, destroyer-mine sweeper, and meets cynical novelist Lt. Tom Keefer, the sober executive officer, Lt. Steve Maryk and another newcomer, Ensign Harding. Willie is unable to conceal his disappointment in the casual Capt. DeVriess and the dilapidated  Caine , yet he nevertheless refuses a transfer arranged by his mother and grudgingly settles down to months of drilling of the clumsy, unkempt crew. When DeVriess is transferred, Willie anticipates the arrival of the new commanding officer, Capt. Francis Philip Queeg, coming off two years of combat duty in the Atlantic. Although mystified by the crew's sentimental send-off of DeVriess, Willie is pleased with Queeg's brisk, if peculiar, manner. Queeg appoints Willie morale officer and immediately orders the  Caine  thoroughly cleaned up. A few days later, after a standard target practice exercise, Willie is summoned to the bridge to be reproached by the captain for not punishing a disheveled sailor. Queeg becomes so engrossed in the reprimand that the  Caine  steams undirected in a circle, severing its target tow-line. The incident results in the  Caine  being summoned back to San Francisco, where Willie goes to see May and presents her to his anxious mother. Willie takes May to Yosemite and proposes, but May refuses, claiming that Willie is still too concerned about his mother's opinions. Shortly after returning to sea, the  Caine  is ordered to escort assault teams to enemy-held beaches, but during the first mission, Steve is forced to take temporary command when Queeg is inexplicably absent. When the captain finally arrives, he grows anxious at the enemy shelling and alarmed as Steve slows the ship to protect the smaller landing craft. Queeg orders the  Caine  to drop its yellow dye marker to indicate the landing zone, then to retreat to open sea. Willie is perplexed by the captain's behavior, while Tom makes sarcastic comments about Queeg's bravery. Later, Steve sternly rebukes several officers, including Tom, Willie and Harding, for making up a song, "Yellowstain Blues," which besmirches Queeg. Willie is bitterly disappointed by Queeg's character lapse, but neither he nor any of the officers respond when Queeg makes a thinly veiled request for support. When Tom observes that Queeg's eccentric mannerisms and increasingly irrational behavior indicates that he is mentally unsound, Steve demands that he take the charge to the medical officer, but Tom refuses. Disturbed by Tom's suggestion, however, Steve gets a book on mental illness from the ship's library and begins keeping a log of Queeg's escalating erratic behavior, which has begun to sap the crew's morale. Late one night, Queeg summons all the officers to begin an investigation of the disappearance of a gallon of strawberries from the mess. When the lengthy inquiry extends to searching each crew member for a duplicate mess key that Queeg is certain must have been used in the theft, Tom reiterates his challenge of Queeg's mental soundness and suggests Steve consider relieving the captain according to Navy regulations. Steve is further upset when Harding, who must leave the ship to attend his seriously ill wife, reveals that he witnessed the mess boys eating the strawberries and reported the incident to Queeg, but the captain threatened to cancel Harding's emergency leave if he repeated the story. Steve then asks Tom and Willie to accompany him to fleet commander Admiral Halsey to seek advice. On board Halsey's carrier, Tom reconsiders, cautioning Steve that he may ruin his career by accusing Queeg. Uncertain, Steve acquiesces and the men return to the  Caine . The fleet is then ordered out to sea into a strong storm, during which Queeg risks capsizing the  Caine  by stubbornly maintaining the ordered course, despite Steve's pleas to turn the ship. When Queeg appears terrified by the violent pitching of the ship, Steve, fearful for the ship's safety, relieves him of command using the Navy code. Willie supports Steve, and Queeg's order for their arrest is ignored by the other officers. Some time later, in San Francisco, May telephones her support to Willie, as he and Steve are brought up for court-martial. Cynical Lt. Barney Greenwald is the only lawyer who grudgingly accepts Willie and Steve's case. At the trial the prosecution is led by Lt. Cmdr. Challee, who establishes Willie's naval inexperience and gradual loathing of Queeg. Testimony offered by other sailors reveals only that Queeg was a demanding, driven commander. Under questioning, Tom admits that he was not present at many of Queeg's supposed displays of unstable behavior and lies that he had not suggested to Steve that Queeg might be mentally unfit. Tom then goes on to say that he does not believe Steve's log holds enough information to justify the mutiny. A naval psychiatrist asserts that Queeg is not mentally ill, but under Barney's probing admits that the captain suffers from deep paranoia due to long and arduous combat duty. When Queeg takes the stand, he severely criticizes Steve, yet is unable to explain his earlier positive written evaluation of his executive officer. Barney brings up the tow-line and dye stain incidents, but Queeg insists his officers were disloyal and unsupportive. Queeg grows increasingly agitated when Barney mentions the missing strawberries and when Harding's name is brought up, the captain takes up his nervous habit of rolling metal balls in his hand and launches into a lengthy, rambling defense. In the face of Queeg's obvious instability, Steve and Willie are acquitted. Afterward, during the celebration with the  Caine 's officers, a drunken Barney chastises them for not supporting Queeg and for putting the ship in danger by their recklessness. The men are startled when Barney accuses Tom of being the true instigator of the  Caine  mutiny. Soon after, Willie and May marry and, upon returning from their honeymoon, Willie reports to his new ship to discover, with a sense of relief, that his commanding officer is DeVriess.

Cast & Crew

Edward Dmytryk Director

Carter DeHaven Jr. Assistant Director

Humphrey Bogart Capt. Francis Philip Queeg

Jose Ferrer Lt. Barney Greenwald

Van Johnson Lt. Steve Maryk

Fred MacMurray Lt. Tom Keefer

Robert Francis  Ensign Willie Keith

May Wynn May Wynn

Tom Tully Capt. DeVriess

E. G. Marshall Lt. Cmdr. Challee

Arthur Franz Lt. Paynter

Lee Marvin Meatball

Warner Anderson Capt. Blakely

Claude Akins Horrible

Katharine Warren Mrs. Keith

Jerry Paris Ensign Harding

Steve Brodie Chief Budge

Todd Karns Stilwell

Whit Bissell Lt. Cmdr. Dickson

James Best Lt. Jorgensen

Joe Haworth Ensign Carmody

Guy Anderson Ensign Rabbit

James Edwards Whittaker

Don Dubbins Urban

David Alpert Engstrand

Dayton Lumis Uncle Lloyd

James Todd Commodore Kelvey

Don Keefer Court stenographer

Patrick Miller Movie operator

Tyler McVey Board member

John Tomecko Board member

Kenneth MacDonald Board member

Paul McGuire Board member

Robert Bray Board member

Gaylord Pendleton Board member

Richard Norris Board member

Ted Cooper Sergeant at arms

Don Dillaway Chauffeur

John Duncan Sailor

Jay Richards Sailor

Frank Losee Sailor

Ben Harris Navy desk clerk

Eddie Laguna Winston

Don Anderson Radar man  

Frank Planer Director of Photography

Ray Cory 2d unit cam

Herman Wouk Novel as Source Material

Stanley Roberts Screenwriter

Michael Blankfort Additional Dialogue

Stanley Kramer Producer

William A. Lyon Film Editor

Henry Batista Film Editor

Max Steiner Music Director

Jimmy McHugh Composer

Fred Karger Composer

Clarence Gaskill Composer

Rudolph Sternad Production Design

Cary Odell Art Director

Lawrence W. Butler Special Effects

Clay Campbell Makeup

Helen Hunt Hair Styles

Jean Louis Gowns

Frank [A.] Tuttle Set Decoration

Lambert Day Sound Engineer

Stanley Kramer Company

Cmdr. James C. Shaw U.S.N.

Technical Advisor

Francis Cugat

Technicolor Color Consultant

Additional Details MPAA Ratings: Premiere Info: New York opening: 24 Jun 1954

Release Date: 1954  Production Date:1.85:1

A Stanley Kramer Production AFI

Color/B&W:    Color (Technicolor)      Distributions Co: Columbia Pictures Corp.

Sound: Mono (Western Electric Sound System)Production Co: Columbia Pictures Corp.

Duration(mins): 123 or 127       Country: United States

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THE CAINE MUTINY (1954). Humphrey Bogart as Captain Queeg

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Herman Wouk

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The Caine Mutiny

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The Caine Mutiny is a 1952 Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Herman Wouk. The novel grew out of Wouk's personal experiences aboard a destroyer-minesweeper in the Pacific in World War II and deals with, among other things, the moral and ethical decisions made at sea by the captains of ships. The mutiny of the title is legalistic, not violent, and takes place during an historic typhoon in December 1944. The court-martial that results provides the dramatic climax to the plot.

The Caine Mutiny reached the top of the New York Times best seller list on August 12, 1951, after 17 weeks on the list, replacing From Here to Eternity. It remained atop the list for 32 weeks until March 30, 1952, when it was replaced by My Cousin Rachel. It moved back to first place on May 25, 1952, and remained another 15 weeks, before being supplanted by The Silver Chalice, and last appeared on August 23, 1953, after 122 weeks on the list.

Robert Francis (actor)

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Robert Charles Francis (February 26, 1930 – July 31, 1955) was an American actor.

Francis was born in Glendale, California and made his motion picture debut and had his most significant role of Ensign Willie Keith in The Caine Mutiny (1954), alongside Humphrey Bogart, Fred MacMurray, and other stars.

He appeared in three more films, They Rode West in 1954, John Ford's The Long Gray Line and The Bamboo Prison.

Francis and two passengers were killed when the small aircraft he was piloting crashed in Burbank, California. He is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park.