Editing The Caine Mutiny (1954 film) (section)

===Casting and director===
Stanley Kramer and Columbia Pictures intended  to cast Humphrey Bogart as Philip Queeg. [[Columbia Pictures]] president [[Harry Cohn]] knew that Bogart wanted the part and took advantage of that fact, and he was eventually able to force Bogart to settle for much less than his usual $200,000 salary. "This never happens to [[Gary Cooper|Cooper]] or [[Cary Grant|Grant]] or [[Clark Gable|Gable]], but always to me", Bogart complained to his wife, [[Lauren Bacall]].<ref name="tcmarticle" />

[[Van Johnson]] was loaned to Columbia by MGM, where he was under contract. Being cast as Maryk was a breakthrough for the actor, who felt that he had been in a "rut" by being typecast in light roles. During the filming of the scene off Oahu in which Maryk swims fully clothed to retrieve a line, his character is warned that there are sharks in the water; these sharks do not appear on camera, but the actor's life was saved when a real-life Navy rifleman shot one which was approaching.<ref name="Johnson bio" /> [[Lee Marvin]] was cast as one of the sailors, not only for his acting, but also because of his knowledge of ships at sea. Marvin had served in the [[U.S. Marines]] from the beginning of American involvement in [[World War II]] through the [[Battle of Saipan]] in 1944, during which he was wounded. As a result, he became an unofficial technical advisor for the film.<ref name="tcmarticle" />

Before choosing Dmytryk for ''The Caine Mutiny'', Kramer had hired the director for three low-budget films. Dmytryk had previously been [[Hollywood blacklist|blacklisted]], and the success of the film helped revive his career.<ref name="Dmytryk memoir" />

''The Caine Mutiny'' would be the first feature role in [[Robert Francis (actor)|Robert Francis]]'s short four-film Hollywood career, as he was killed when the private plane he was piloting crashed shortly after takeoff from [[Burbank Airport]] in California on July 31, 1955.<ref>[[Robert Osborne|Osborne, Robert]] outro, TCM broadcast</ref>