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{{Short description|1954 war drama film by Edward Dmytryk}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = The Caine Mutiny | image = Mutiny 0.jpg | caption = Original film poster | director = [[Edward Dmytryk]] | producer = [[Stanley Kramer]] | based_on = {{based on|''[[The Caine Mutiny]]''<br />(1951 novel)|[[Herman Wouk]]}} | writer = [[Stanley Roberts (screenwriter)|Stanley Roberts]]<br />[[Michael Blankfort]]<ref name=afi>{{AFI film|51155}}</ref> | starring = {{plainlist| * [[Humphrey Bogart]] * [[José Ferrer]] * [[Van Johnson]] * [[Fred MacMurray]] * [[Robert Francis (actor)|Robert Francis]] * [[May Wynn]] * [[Tom Tully]] }} | music = [[Max Steiner]] | cinematography = [[Franz Planer]] | editing = {{plainlist| * [[Henry Batista]] * [[William Lyon (film editor)|William A. Lyon]] }} | studio = Stanley Kramer Productions | distributor = [[Columbia Pictures]] | released = {{Film date|1954|06|24|New York City}} | runtime = 125 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = $2 million<ref name="fred">Tranberg, Charles (2014) ''Fred MacMurray: A Biography'', Bear Manor Media</ref> | gross = $21.8 million<ref>[http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1954/0CMUT.php Box Office Information for ''The Caine Mutiny'']. The Numbers. Retrieved April 15, 2013</ref> }} '''''The Caine Mutiny''''' is a 1954 American [[military trial film]] directed by [[Edward Dmytryk]], produced by [[Stanley Kramer]], and starring [[Humphrey Bogart]], [[José Ferrer]], [[Van Johnson]], [[Robert Francis (actor)|Robert Francis]], and [[Fred MacMurray]]. It is based on [[Herman Wouk]]'s [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction|Pulitzer Prize]]-winning 1951 [[The Caine Mutiny|novel of the same name]]. Set in the [[Pacific War|Pacific theatre]] of [[World War II]], the film depicts the events on board a [[U.S. Navy]] [[destroyer-minesweeper]] and the subsequent [[court-martial]] of its executive officer for [[mutiny]]. The film was released by [[Columbia Pictures]] on June 24, 1954. It was well-received by critics and was the second highest-grossing film in the United States in 1954.<ref name="ReferenceA">'The Top Box-Office Hits of 1954', ''Variety Weekly'', January 5, 1955</ref> At the [[27th Academy Awards]], the film was nominated for seven Oscars, including [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]], [[Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay|Best Adapted Screenplay]], [[Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]] for Humphrey Bogart. [[Edward Dmytryk]] was nominated for a [[Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film|Directors Guild of America Award]]. ==Plot== During World War II, newly commissioned Ensign Willis Seward "Willie" Keith reports to the [[Destroyer minesweeper|minesweeper]] USS ''Caine'', where he meets career officer Lt. Stephen Maryk, the ship’s executive officer, and aspiring novelist and communications officer Thomas Keefer. Soon after, Lt. Commander Philip Francis Queeg is assigned command of the ''Caine''. The eccentric Queeg instills strict discipline on the lax crew, making him unpopular with them, but admired by Keith. During a gunnery target towing exercise, Queeg is distracted berating Keith and Keefer over a crewman’s appearance, resulting in the ship steering over the towline, setting the target adrift. Queeg tries to cover up the incident. [[File:Strawberry investigation - Caine Mutiny.jpg|thumb|left|275px|The "strawberry investigation".]] Assigned to escort a group of [[landing craft]] during an [[Leapfrogging (strategy)|invasion of a small Pacific island]], Queeg abandons his mission before he reaches the designated departure point, and instead orders the dropping of a yellow dye marker, leaving the landing craft to fend for themselves. Queeg asks his officers for their support, but they remain silent and nickname him "Old Yellowstain", which implies cowardice. Keefer, believing Queeg to be [[paranoid]], encourages Maryk to consider relieving Queeg on the basis of mental incapacity under Article 184 of [[United States Navy Regulations|Navy Regulations]]. Though Maryk angrily rejects that possibility, he does begin keeping a medical log documenting the captain's behavior. When strawberries go missing from the officers' mess, Queeg convenes an elaborate investigation to determine the culprit. The investigation involves searching the ship and stripping all crew members. Convinced of Queeg's instability, Maryk asks Keefer and Keith to go with him to see [[William Halsey Jr.|Admiral Halsey]] about the matter. Arriving aboard Halsey's flagship, Keefer backs down and they return to the ship. At the height of a [[typhoon]], Maryk urges the captain to reverse course into the wind and take on ballast, but Queeg refuses and virtually freezes up on the bridge. Maryk, supported by Keith, relieves Queeg of command under Article 184. The ''Caine'' returns to San Francisco, where Maryk and Keith face a [[court-martial]] for [[mutiny]]. Lieutenant Barney Greenwald, a temporarily grounded [[naval aviator]] and an attorney before entering the Navy, becomes Maryk's defense counsel. At the court-martial, Keefer claims he never observed any mental illness in Queeg and was "flabbergasted" when he was relieved. Under Greenwald's relentless cross-examination, Queeg exhibits odd behavior on the stand, including his habit of rolling two steel balls in his hand symbolizing his mental instability, and Maryk is acquitted. Following the acquittal, the officers of the ''Caine'' hold a party, where Keefer receives a frosty reception from Maryk. A drunken Greenwald arrives and berates all the officers for not appreciating Queeg's long service and failing to give him the support he asked for, instead of deriding him as an incompetent. Greenwald claims their mistreatment of Queeg, who had been suffering from "[[Post-traumatic stress disorder|battle fatigue]]" from his previous combat service in the Atlantic, caused the captain to ultimately become indecisive during the typhoon. He denounces Keefer as the real "author" of the mutiny and throws a glass of champagne, the "yellow wine", in Keefer's face. The rest of the officers walk out, leaving Keefer alone in the room. Keith, now married to his girlfriend May Wynn, is promoted to [[lieutenant (junior grade)]], and assigned to a new ''Sumner''-class destroyer commanded by now-Commander De Vriess, his first captain in the ''Caine''. == Cast == [[File:Queeg_B.jpg|thumb|275px|The act of mutiny: Maryk's relief of Queeg during the typhoon.|alt=]] {{castlist| * [[Humphrey Bogart]] as [[Lieutenant commander (United States)|LCDR]] Philip Francis Queeg * [[José Ferrer]] as [[Lieutenant|LT]] Barney Greenwald * [[Van Johnson]] as LT Steve Maryk * [[Fred MacMurray]] as LT Tom Keefer * [[Robert Francis (actor)|Robert Francis]] as [[Ensign (rank)|ENS]] (later LTJG) Willis Seward "Willie" Keith * [[May Wynn]] as May Wynn{{efn|Wynn's birth name was "Donna Lee Hickey"; she adopted her [[stage name]] from the character in Wouk's original novel.}} * [[Tom Tully]] as LCDR (later, CDR) William H. De Vriess * [[E. G. Marshall]] as LCDR John Challee, the [[Judge Advocate General's Corps (United States)|JAG]] prosecutor * [[Arthur Franz]] as [[Lieutenant junior grade|LTJG]] H. Paynter Jr. * [[Lee Marvin]] as "Meatball" * [[Warner Anderson]] as [[Captain|CAPT]] Blakely, President of the court-martial * [[Claude Akins]] as "Horrible" * [[Katherine Warren]] as Mrs. Keith, Ensign Keith's mother * [[Jerry Paris]] as [[Ensign (rank)|ENS]] Barney Harding * [[Steve Brodie (actor)|Steve Brodie]] as [[Warrant officer (United States)|CWO]] Budge ;Uncredited * [[Todd Karns]] as [[Gunner's mate|QM1]] John Stilwell<ref name=tvguide>{{cite web | url=https://www.tvguide.com/movies/the-caine-mutiny/cast/2030282051/ | title=The Caine Mutiny |publisher=TV Guide}}</ref> * [[Whit Bissell]] as LCDR Dixon, MC, Navy psychiatrist<ref name=tvguide/> * [[James Best]] as LTJG Jorgensen<ref name=tvguide/> * Joe Haworth as ENS Carmody<ref name=tvguide/> * [[Herbert Anderson]] as ENS Rabbit<ref name=tvguide/> * [[James Edwards (actor)|James Edwards]] as [[seaman apprentice|SA]] Whittaker<ref>{{cite book|last1=McCarty|first1=Clifford|title=Bogey: The Films of Humphrey Bogart|date=1965|publisher=Cadillac Publishing Co., Inc.|location=New York, N.Y.|page=174|edition=1st}}</ref> }} {{multiple image | align = right | direction = vertical | width = 125 | image1 = Queeg meeting officers - Caine Mutiny.jpg | caption1 = Humphrey Bogart | image2 = Jose Ferrer in Caine Mutiny.jpg | caption2 = José Ferrer | image3 = Van Johnson - Caine Mutiny.jpg | caption3 = Van Johnson | image4 = MacMurray as Keefer in Caine Mutiny.jpg | caption4 = Fred MacMurray, after champagne has been flung in his face }} ==Pre-production== ===Writing=== Herman Wouk had already adapted his novel as a stage play, ''[[The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (play)|The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial]]'', which premiered on Broadway in January 1954 and ran for more than a year. The play was directed by [[Charles Laughton]] and was a critical as well as a commercial success.<ref name="Hischak">{{cite book|last1=Hischak|first1=Thomas S.|title=American literature on stage and screen 525 works and their adaptations|date=2012|publisher=McFarland|location=Jefferson, N.C.|isbn=9780786492794|pages=35–36|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vfie60kGGuAC&pg=PA36|access-date=4 March 2016}}</ref> Wouk was initially selected to write the screenplay, but director Dmytryk was dissatisfied with his draft. He replaced the novelist with [[Stanley Roberts (screenwriter)|Stanley Roberts]], an experienced screenwriter. Roberts later quit the production after being told to cut the screenplay so the film could be kept to two hours. The 50 pages worth of cuts were made by [[Michael Blankfort]], who received an "additional dialog" credit.<ref name="tcmarticle">McGee, Scott [https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/25162/the-caine-mutiny#articles-reviews "The Caine Mutiny" (TCM article)]</ref> The film differs from the novel, which focused on the Keith character, who became secondary in the film. The film instead focuses on Queeg.<ref name="Hischak" /> Independent producer Stanley Kramer "mollified the Navy" by modifying the Queeg characterization to make him less of a madman, as portrayed by Wouk, and more a victim of battle fatigue.<ref name="Johnson bio">{{cite book |last1=Davis |first1=Ronald L. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RG2PFR0tFSAC&pg=PA159 |title=Van Johnson: MGM's Golden Boy |date=2016 |publisher=University Press of Mississippi |isbn=9781496803856 |pages=159–161 |access-date=4 March 2016}}</ref> Studios did not want to purchase the film rights to Wouk's novel until cooperation of the U.S. Navy was settled.<ref name="tcmnotes">TCM [https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/25162/the-caine-mutiny#notes Notes]</ref> Kramer purchased the rights himself for an estimated $60,000 – $70,000. The Navy's reluctance to cooperate led to an unusually long pre-production period. ===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> == Production == ===Filming=== Principal photography took place between June 3 and August 24, 1953 under the initial working title of ''Authority and Rebellion''.<ref name="tcmoverview">TCM [https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/25162/the-caine-mutiny#overview Overview: ''The Caine Mutiny''], Turner Classics Movies (TCM)</ref> In addition to the Pearl Harbor and [[San Francisco Bay Area]] locations, including the ''Caine'' steaming back and forth several times under the [[Golden Gate Bridge]], the romantic subplot features scenes shot on location at [[Yosemite National Park]].<ref name="CMH">{{cite web |title=Facts about The Caine Mutiny |url=http://www.classicmoviehub.com/facts-and-trivia/film/the-caine-mutiny-1954/page/2/ |website=www.classicmoviehub.com |publisher=Classic Movie Hub |access-date=29 March 2020}}</ref> The {{USS|Rodman|DD-456|6}}, a {{sclass|Gleaves|destroyer|0}} [[destroyer minesweeper]], was one of the ships chosen to represent the USS ''Caine'' in the film. The ''Rodman'' had one less smokestack than the actual {{sclass|Clemson|destroyer|1}}s on which Wouk served, and had more anti-aircraft guns. Completed in 1941, she was a much more modern ship than the 1918-manufactured ''Clemson''-class destroyer minesweepers had been. True to the theme of the novel, the actual minesweepers of Wouk's service, the {{USS|Zane|DD-337|2}} and the {{USS|Southard|DD-207|2}}, were both outdated ships by the time the film was made. The ''Zane'' was retired shortly after the war, and the ''Southard'' was scuttled in October 1945 after running aground in Okinawa with Wouk serving as Executive Officer. One of the primary inspirations for the book and the movie came from Wouk's experience as second in command of the ''Southard'' when she ran aground in Okinawa as a result of [[Typhoon Ida (1945)|Typhoon Ida]] in September 1945.<ref>{{cite web|title=USS Rodman|url=https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/r/rodman.html|publisher=Naval History and Heritage Command|access-date=14 May 2020}}</ref><ref name="Janes-73">{{cite Jane's||310|1973 ships}}</ref><ref>Description of the ship ''Southard'' in the typhoon in Wouk, Herman, ''The Caine Mutiny'', (1953) Little, Brown and Company, Boston, New York, London, pp. 344–57</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Carpenter |first=Frederick I. |title=Herman Wouk |journal=College English |date=January 1956 |volume=17 |issue=4 |pages=211–215 |doi=10.2307/371577 |jstor=371577 |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/371577 |accessdate=22 June 2020}}</ref> Columbia claimed that the film contained the longest continuous courtroom scene without a cut, running to 977 feet, surpassing a scene in ''[[The Life of Emile Zola]]''.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Inside Stuff - Pictures|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=August 26, 1953|page=17|url=https://archive.org/details/variety191-1953-08/page/n210/mode/1up?view=theater|access-date=March 14, 2024|via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref> ===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> == Music == This was the last of a number of Bogart films scored by composer [[Max Steiner]], mostly for [[Warner Bros.]] The main title theme, ''The Caine Mutiny March'', was included in [[RCA Victor]]'s collection of classic Bogart film scores, recorded by [[Charles Gerhardt (conductor)|Charles Gerhardt]] and the [[National Philharmonic Orchestra]].<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050500/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ql_1 ''The Caine Mutiny'' Music Credits] IMDb</ref> The lyrics of the song, "Yellowstain Blues", which mocked Queeg's perceived cowardice during the landing incident, were drawn from the source novel.<ref>Wouk, Herman. ''The Caine Mutiny''</ref> ===Soundtrack=== The original [[soundtrack album]] for ''The Caine Mutiny'' was not officially released until 2017, and copies of the soundtrack made before that are very rare. Perhaps a dozen copies survive. [[RCA Victor]] planned an [[LP album|LP]] release with musical excerpts on the first side and the complete dialogue of the climactic court-martial scene on side two, but Herman Wouk believed that including this scene was an infringement on his recently opened [[The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (play)|Broadway play]] dealing with the court-martial. He threatened to prohibit Columbia Pictures from making any further adaptations of his work. According to Wouk, "Columbia head Harry Cohn looked into the matter, called me back, and said in his tough gravelly voice, 'I've got you beat on the legalities, but I've listened to the record and it's no goddamn good, so I'm yanking it.'"{{citation needed|date=March 2016}} Max Steiner's score was finally released by [[Intrada Records]] in 2017 as Special Collection Volume ISC 382.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.10886/.f?sc=13&category=22848 |title=The Caine Mutiny; Original Music from the Motion Picture|work=store.intrada.com|access-date=August 12, 2017}}</ref> ==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 – as well as Columbia Pictures – 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> ==Legacy == In his book ''American Literature on Stage and Film'', historian Thomas S. Hischak says that Dmytryk handled both the action sequences and character portrayals deftly, and calls Queeg's breakdown during the trial "the stuff of movie legend."<ref name="Hischak" /> The film and novel influenced the drafters of the [[Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution|25th Article Of Amendment to the U.S. Constitution]], which set forth conditions for removing the President of the United States. [[John D. Feerick]], former dean of [[Fordham University School of Law]], who assisted in drafting the amendment, told ''[[The Washington Post]]'' in 2018 that the film was a "live depiction" of the type of crisis that could arise "if a president ever faced questions about physical or mental inabilities but disagreed completely with the judgment", which was not dealt with in the Constitution. Lawmakers and lawyers drafting the amendment wanted no such "Article 184 situation" as depicted in the film, in which the Vice President of the U.S. or others could topple the President by merely saying that the President was "disabled".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/09/10/how-the-caine-mutiny-and-the-paranoid-capt-queeg-contributed-to-the-debate-over-the-25th-amendment/|title=How 'The Caine Mutiny' and the paranoid Capt. Queeg influenced the 25th Amendment's drafters, making it harder to sideline a president|last=Flynn|first=Meagan|date=10 September 2018|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=22 March 2019}}</ref> ===Cultural influence=== When [[Michael Caine]], born Maurice Micklewhite, first became an actor he adopted the [[stage name]] "Michael White". He was later told by his agent that another actor was already using the same name, and that he had to come up with a new one immediately. Speaking to his agent from a telephone box in [[Leicester Square]] in [[London]], he looked around for inspiration. Being a fan of Bogart, he noted that ''The Caine Mutiny'' was being shown at the Odeon Cinema, and adopted a new name from the movie title. Caine has often joked in interviews that, had he looked the other way, he would have ended up as "Michael [[One Hundred and One Dalmatians]]".<ref>{{cite news| url=http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,445597,00.html | work=The Guardian | location=London | title=Michael Caine (I) | date=1998-11-06 | access-date=2010-05-25}}</ref> [[Vince Gilligan]] used a clip of the film in a ''[[Breaking Bad]]'' episode titled "[[Madrigal (Breaking Bad)|Madrigal]]", originally transmitted in 2012, and has stated that ''The Caine Mutiny'' was one of his favorite movies as a child.<ref>{{cite news|last=Nelson |first=Erik |url=http://www.salon.com/2012/07/23/vince_gilligan_ive_never_googled_breaking_bad/ |title=Vince Gilligan: I've never Googled "Breaking Bad" |work=Salon.com |date=2012-07-23 |access-date=2012-08-03}}</ref> The final scene of "[[Chicanery (Better Call Saul)|Chicanery]]", an episode of the ''Breaking Bad'' spinoff series ''[[Better Call Saul]]'', is an homage to the film's climactic courtroom scene.<ref name="caine-uproxx">{{cite web |url=http://uproxx.com/tv/caine-mutiny-better-call-saul/2/ |title=The Movie That Inspired The 'Best Episode Ever' Of 'Better Call Saul' | work=[[Uproxx]] | date=2017-05-11 | access-date=2017-05-17 | last=Rowles | first=Dustin }}</ref> In ''[[Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'', members of the human resistance serve aboard the submarine [[USS Jimmy Carter (SSN-23)|USS ''Jimmy Carter'']] piloted by a reprogrammed [[Terminator (character concept)|Terminator]] that has been named "Queeg" by the crew.<ref>{{cite news|author=rockknj|url=http://www.nj.com/entertainment/tv/index.ssf/2009/03/terminator_today_is_the_day_pa.html |title=Terminator, "Today is the Day, Part 2": Never trust a captain named Queeg |work=NJ.com |date=March 23, 2009|access-date=2009-05-02}}</ref> In the ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek]]'' episode "[[The Doomsday Machine (Star Trek: The Original Series)|The Doomsday Machine]]", the obsessive Commodore Matt Decker, portrayed by [[William Windom (actor)|William Windom]], fusses constantly with two futuristic tape cartridges, much as Captain Queeg [[Baoding balls|rubs together]] two [[bearing balls]]. Windom publicly acknowledged that Decker's behavior was based on Queeg's.<ref>DeCandido, Keith (November 17, 2015) [http://www.tor.com/2015/11/17/star-trek-the-original-series-rewatch-the-doomsday-machine/ "Star Trek The Original Series Rewatch: 'The Doomsday Machine'"] ''Tor.com'' (Macmillan) Quote: "But the big guest is the great William Windom as Decker. He fully inhabits the role, giving him all kinds of wonderful little tics and habits, from the awkward way he sits in the captain's chair to the way he plays with the data tapes (which Windom has said was inspired by how Humphrey Bogart fiddled with ball bearings [''sic''] when he played Captain Queeg in ''The Caine Mutiny'')."</ref> ==See also== *[[List of American films of 1954]] * [[Trial movies]] * [[Typhoon Cobra (1944)]], the violent storm that inspired the one in the film.<ref name='Drury'>{{cite book|last=Drury|first=Bob|title=Halsey's Typhoon – The True Story of a Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm and an Untold Rescue|publisher=Atlantic Monthly Press|year=2007| isbn=978-1-59887-086-2|page=286}}</ref> * {{USS|Somers|1842}}, only mutiny in U.S. Navy history which led to executions. * [[The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (2023 film)|''The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial'']], a second film released in 2023, based on Wouk's [[The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (play)|stage script]] ==Notes== {{notelist}} ==References== {{Reflist|30em}} == Further reading== * Rosenberg, Norman L. "The Caine Mutiny: Not Just One but Many Legal Dramas". ''Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce'' 31 (2000): 623+. * Tibbetts, John C., and James M. Welsh, eds. 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