Editing The Caine Mutiny (1954 film) (section)

==Reception==

The film premiered in [[New York City]] on June 24, 1954, and went into general release on July 28. Made on a budget of $2 million, it was the [[1954 in film|second-highest-grossing film of 1954]], earning $8.7 million in [[Gross rental|theatrical rentals]] in the United States.<ref name="ReferenceA" /><ref>{{cite book |last1=Steinberg |first1=Cobbett |title=Film Facts |year=1980 |publisher=Facts on File, Inc. |location=New York |isbn=0-87196-313-2 |page=[https://archive.org/details/filmfacts00cobb_mc3/page/22 22] |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/filmfacts00cobb_mc3/page/22 }}</ref> It was the most successful of Kramer's productions, some of which had previously lost money, and put his entire production company &ndash; as well as Columbia Pictures &ndash; in the black.<ref name="Dmytryk memoir">{{cite book|last1=Dmytryk|first1=Edward|title=Odd man out : a memoir of the Hollywood Ten|date=1996|publisher=Southern Illinois Univ. Press|location=Carbondale [u.a.]|isbn=9780809319992|pages=[https://archive.org/details/oddmanoutmemoiro0000dmyt/page/186 186]–190|url=https://archive.org/details/oddmanoutmemoiro0000dmyt|url-access=registration|quote=the caine mutiny.|access-date=4 March 2016}}</ref>

The film got a major pre-release boost three weeks before its premiere when Bogart as Queeg appeared on the cover of the June 7, 1954 issue of ''[[Time Magazine|Time]]'' magazine. The accompanying cover story ("Cinema: The Survivor") praised Bogart's portrayal of Queeg as "a blustering, secretive figure in Navy suntans, who brings the hollow, driven, tyrannical character of Captain Queeg to full and invidious life, yet seldom fails to maintain a bond of sympathy with his audience. He deliberately gives Queeg the mannerisms and appearance of an officer of sternness and decision, and then gradually discloses him as a man who is bottling up a scream, a man who never meets another's eyes. In the courtroom scene, Bogart's Queeg seems oblivious of his own mounting hysteria. Then, suddenly, he knows he is undone; he stops and stares stricken at the court, during second after ticking second of dramatic and damning silence."<ref name="TIME">"Cinema: The Survivor", TIME Magazine, June 7, 1954</ref>

Director Edward Dmytryk felt ''The Caine Mutiny'' could have been better than it was and should have been three and a half to four hours long to fully portray all the characters and complex story, but Columbia's Cohn insisted on a two-hour limit.<ref name=tcmarticle /> Reviewing the film in ''[[The New York Times]]'', [[Bosley Crowther]] wrote that the job of condensing Wouk's novel to two hours had been achieved "with clarity and vigor, on the whole." His reservations concerned the studio's attempt to "cram" in "more of the novel than was required", such as the "completely extraneous" love affair between Keith and May Wynn, which Crowther found to be a plot diversion that weakened dramatic tension. Although he doubted whether the novel had a structure suited for film, he noted that Roberts had "endeavored to follow it faithfully." The result, he argued, was that the court-martial became "an anticlimax" as it repeated Queeg's visible collapse seen in the typhoon but still considered the core of the film "smartly and stingingly played" and "though somewhat garbled" was still "a vibrant film."<ref name=NYT>{{cite web |last1=Crowther |first1=Bosley |title=''The Caine Mutiny (1954) The Screen: 'Caine Mutiny' Arrives; Vibrant Depiction of Novel Is at Capitol'' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9A0DE1DB1438E23BBC4D51DFB066838F649EDE |work=New York Times |access-date= April 6, 2015 |date=June 25, 1954}}</ref>

{{Rotten Tomatoes prose|score=95|count=41|average=8.1|consensus=Humphrey Bogart is superb as a domineering captain with brittle composure in ''The Caine Mutiny'', an inquisitive courtroom drama teeming with memorable performances.|ref=yes |access-date=April 19, 2024}}

The February 2020 issue of ''[[New York Magazine]]'' lists ''The Caine Mutiny'' as among "The Best Movies That Lost Best Picture at the Oscars."<ref>{{cite news|title=The Best Movies That Lost Best Picture at the Oscars|url=https://www.vulture.com/article/best-oscar-best-picture-losers.html|magazine=[[New York Magazine]]|access-date=March 17, 2025}}</ref>

===Awards and nominations===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|-
! Award
! Category
! Nominee(s)
! Result
! Ref.
|-
| rowspan="7"| [[27th Academy Awards|Academy Awards]]
| [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Motion Picture]]
| [[Stanley Kramer]]
| {{nom}}
| align="center" rowspan="7"| <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1955 |title=The 27th Academy Awards (1955) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2011-08-20 |publisher=Oscars.org ([[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]])}}</ref>
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]
| [[Humphrey Bogart]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]]
| [[Tom Tully]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay|Best Screenplay]]
| [[Stanley Roberts (screenwriter)|Stanley Roberts]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Film Editing|Best Film Editing]]
| [[William Lyon (film editor)|William Lyon]] and [[Henry Batista]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Original Score|Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture]]
| [[Max Steiner]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Sound|Best Sound Recording]]
| [[John P. Livadary]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[8th British Academy Film Awards|British Academy Film Awards]]
| colspan="2"| [[BAFTA Award for Best Film|Best Film from any Source]]
| {{nom}}
| align="center" rowspan="2"| <ref>{{cite web |url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1955/film |title=BAFTA Awards: Film in 1955 |website=[[BAFTA]] |year=1955 |access-date=16 September 2016 |ref={{harvid|BAFTA|1955}}}}</ref>
|-
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role|Best Foreign Actor]]
| [[José Ferrer]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[7th Directors Guild of America Awards|Directors Guild of America Awards]]
| [[Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film|Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures]]
| rowspan="2"| [[Edward Dmytryk]]
| {{nom}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dga.org/Awards/History/1950s/1954.aspx?value=1954 |title=7th DGA Awards |website=[[Directors Guild of America Awards]] |access-date=July 5, 2021}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[1954 New York Film Critics Circle Awards|New York Film Critics Circle Awards]]
| [[New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
| {{nom}}
| align="center" rowspan="2"| <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nyfcc.com/awards/?awardyear=1954 |title=1954 New York Film Critics Circle Awards |website=[[New York Film Critics Circle]] |access-date=July 5, 2021}}</ref>
|-
| [[New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]
| Humphrey Bogart
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[15th Venice International Film Festival|Venice International Film Festival]]
| [[Golden Lion]]
| Edward Dmytryk
| {{nom}}
| align="center"| 
|}

[[American Film Institute]] Lists
* [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies]] – Nominated<ref>[http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/movies400.pdf AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies Nominees]</ref>
* [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains]]:
** Lt. Commander Philip Francis Queeg – Nominated Villain<ref>[http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/handv400.pdf AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains Nominees]</ref>
* [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes]]:
** "Ah, but the ''strawberries!'' That's--''that's'' where I had them." – Nominated<ref>[http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/quotes400.pdf AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes Nominees]</ref>
* [[AFI's 10 Top 10]] – Nominated Courtroom Drama<ref>[http://www.afi.com/drop/ballot.pdf AFI's 10 Top 10 Ballot]</ref>