Editing The Caine Mutiny (1954 film) (section)

===Navy involvement===
The [[United States Department of the Navy|Navy]] was initially uncomfortable with both the portrayal of a mentally unbalanced man as the captain of one of its ships and the word "mutiny" in the film's title. After Stanley Roberts' shooting script was completed and approved by the Navy after 15 months of negotiations, the Department agreed to cooperate with [[Columbia Pictures]] by providing access to its ships, planes, combat boats, [[Pearl Harbor]], the port of [[San Francisco]], and [[Naval Station Treasure Island]] for filming. Dmytryk recalled in his memoir that after "noisy" protests from the Navy subsided, the film production received wholehearted cooperation.<ref name="Dmytryk memoir" /> This included the conversion of two soon to be decommissioned destroyer/destroyer minesweepers, {{USS|Thompson|DD-627|6}} and {{USS|Doyle|DMS-34|6}}, as facsimiles to portray the USS ''Caine''.<ref>[http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,806878-4,00.html "Cinema: The Survivor"], TIME Magazine, June 7, 1954</ref><ref>[https://www.destroyers.org/ships/dd-627/ USS THOMPSON (DD-627)] Destroyers.org</ref>

An epigraph appears on screen immediately following the opening credits that reads: "There has never been a mutiny in a ship of the United States Navy. The truths of this film lie not in its incidents, but in the way a few men meet the crisis of their lives."<ref name="tcmarticle" /> In 1842, an incipient mutiny was quashed before it occurred on board the US Navy Brig [[USS Somers (1842)#The .22Somers Affair.22|USS ''Somers'']].<ref>Anthony, Irving. "Mutiny on the USS Somers", 17, no.1 ''Sea Classics'' (Jan. 1984): 18–22, 78–79.</ref>