The Caine Mutiny 1954

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• CinemaSerfon TMDB · Sep 20267/10

  If you ever saw Trevor Howard's "The Gift Horse" from 1952, then you'll get a idea about the USS "Caine" - a ramshackle old ship captained by "DeVriess" (Tom Tully) in what you might call a relaxed fashion. Unexpectedly, he gets a promotion and the ship is taken over by the fastidious "Queeg" (Humphrey Bogart) who takes an whole different approach to sailors with their shirts hanging out. This culture clash grates with executive officer "Maryk" (Van Johnson); the well-heeled new boy "Keith" (Robert Francis) and "Keefer" (Fred MacMurray) but they have to rub along with the man as he seems determined to force this ship to raise it's game and become battle-ready. The thing with their new captain, though, is that his behaviour is starting to become erratic. He fixates on minutiae, obessess with discipline and seems to have only a limited grasp of the plot amidst a violent typhoon - and that controversially forces the hand of his number two and lands them all in a court martial. Their actions haven't gone unnoticed by the judge advocate's department and with nobody very enthusiastic to defend them, it falls to "Greenwald" (José Ferrer) to step in. He makes it clear that he has little re

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