![]() There was some opposition to Humphrey Bogart playing Queeg, primarily because he was far too old for the part in Herman Wouk’s acclaimed World War II novel. The movie took longer to film than expected-and cost more, too. ![]() Navy at first objected to the portrayal of a mutiny, and sanctioned the movie only after it was prefaced with a card stating, and perhaps perpetuating the myth, that there has never been a mutiny on a U.S. Navy ship. (The other two nominees, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and Three Coins in the Fountain, were of lesser merit.) The Columbia film almost didn’t get made: the U.S. The Caine Mutiny is from 1954, a year that included two other Best Picture nominations, the milestone On the Waterfront and the coming-out of Grace Kelly as a serious actress in The Country Girl. Looking about he says, “Sir, the Caine is a real beauty.” His guide corrects him: the Caine is the inboard ship. The two men cross the deck of this “beauty” and Keith sees for the first time his new home at sea, the near-derelict Caine, the T-shirted and even shirtless crew, with such telling nicknames as “Meatball” and “Horrible,” doing the morning wash. Arriving by launch, Keith climbs the ladder of the first ship his guide leads him. Caine at the San Francisco dock, to become the junior among what appears to be a group of un-navy-like officers who tolerate a motley crew of dirty, half-dressed sailors. Now, on top of that, little suspecting what’s in store for him, he boards the destroyer-minesweeper U.S.S. It’s not enough, if he should stop to consider-maybe he has, though he is a bit naïve-that he’s the apple of both his possessive mother’s (Katherine Warren) eye and that of his vacillating girlfriend’s (May Wynn), which will cause conflict in his love life. who set his officers of edge.Ī brand new graduate of Princeton’s midshipman’s school, Willis Seward Keith (Robert Francis), as fresh an ensign as the peach fuzz on his face, doesn’t know what he’s in for. the malcontent who laid the foundation for the mutiny.
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