The Caine Mutiny
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Genre: War film, Courtroom Drama, Drama
Year: 1954
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer, Van Johnson, Fred MacMurray, Robert Charles Francis, Tom Tully, E. G. Marshall, Lee Marvin, Don Dubbins, Jerry Paris, Claude Akins, Arthur Franz, Warner Anderson, Steve Brodie
The Caine Mutiny is a 1954 American drama film set during World War II, directed by Edward Dmytryk and produced by Stanley Kramer. It stars Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer, Van Johnson and Fred MacMurray, and is based on the 1951 Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Herman Wouk The Caine Mutiny. The film depicts a mutiny aboard a fictitious World War II U.S. Navy destroyer minesweeper, the USS Caine (DMS-18), and the subsequent court-martial of two officers.
Callow, rich Ensign Willis Seward "Willie" Keith (Robert Francis) reports for duty aboard the Caine, his first assignment out of officer candidate school. Homeported in Pearl Harbor, he is disappointed and horrified to find the Caine to be a small, battle-scarred destroyer-minesweeper. Its gruff captain, Lieutenant Commander William H. DeVriess (Tom Tully), has almost completely discarded spittle-and-polish discipline, and the crew of the Caine has become slovenly and superficially undisciplined – although their performance of their duties is, in fact, excellent. Keith has already met the executive officer, Lieutenant Stephen Maryk (Van Johnson), and is introduced to the cynical communications officer, novelist LT Thomas Keefer (Fred
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