CAINE MUTINY (DVD/COLLECTORS EDITION/WS 1.85 A/MONO/ENG-SUB/FR-BOTH) DVD

The Caine Mutiny
Robert Francis is at the center of the story as Willis Keith, a newly minted ensign assigned to the U.S.S. Caine. Keith has an uneasy relationship with his skipper, Lt. Comdr. DeVries (Tom Tully), partly through his own ineptitude and as a result of his disapproval of the slovenly way DeVries seems to run the ship. He looks forward to the arrival of a new captain, Lt. Comdr. Philip Francis Queeg, portrayed by Humphrey Bogart. Queeg is a tough, no-nonsense veteran officer who turns the crew into proper sailors and the Caine into a tight ship, engendering resentment from some of the men and several of his officers. Queeg, a veteran of difficult years of service for too long, has insecurities about himself, his command, and his career that begin to manifest themselves as out-of-control spells of temper over small details that cause him to make mistakes. Lt. Keefer (Fred MacMurray), the glib-tongued communications officer, spots the signs of neurosis in the captain's behavior. When, because of Queeg's temper, the Caine steams over its own tow-line on a routine target-towing assignment, the captain is pushed into irrational behavior in trying to explain it away. When he leaves a Marine landing craft that the ship is escorting too far from the beach in the middle of combat, Queeg becomes almost irrational in trying to erase the seeming cowardice he has shown. The ship's dedicated first officer, Lt. Steve Maryk (Van Johnson), hears Keefer's suggestion that the captain may be mentally unbalanced, but does not entertain the thought until Queeg orders the ship turned upside down over pilfered strawberries. During a typhoon that threatens to sink the ship, Queeg's inability to deal with the crisis at hand forces Maryk to assume command, with Keith's support as officer-of-the-deck, thus bringing about the court martial of the two officers. Greenwald (Jose Ferrer), a pilot and lawyer in civilian life, reluctantly agrees to help them, mostly out of sympathy for the impossible predicament in which Maryk has found himself caught up. In testifying for the defense, Keefer covers up his role in fomenting the crisis, denying ever having suggested that the captain was unbalanced. Maryk comes off as sincere but hopelessly out-of-his-depth at the trial, and Keith too inexperienced and callow to have made the kinds of decisions forced on him. Finally, Queeg is called as a witness, and Greenwald destroys his credibility on the stand by going over each questionable incident, one by one, bringing out the officer's defensiveness until he finally reveals his instability. Greenwald confronts the Caine's officers at their "victory" party, criticizing them for their foul treatment of Queeg, and their failure to offer him the loyalty and support that he was entitled to as captain, and which would likely have averted his breakdown in the first place. ~ Bruce Eder, All Movie Guide

Cast Humphrey Bogart as Capt. Philip Francis Queeg José Ferrer as Lt. Barney Greenwald Van Johnson as Lt. Steve Maryk Fred MacMurray as Lt. Tom Keefer Robert Francis as Ensign Willie Keith May Wynn as May Wynn Tom Tully as Capt. DeVriess E.G. Marshall as Lieutenant Commander Challee Arthur Franz as Lt. Paynter Lee Marvin as Meatball Warner Anderson as Capt. Blakely Claude Akins as Horrible Katherine Warren as Mrs. Keith Jerry Paris as Ensign Harding Steve Brodie as Chief Budge Todd Karns as Stilwell Whit Bissell as Lt. Cmdr. Dickson James Best as Lieutenant Jorgensen Joe Haworth as Ens. Carmody James Edwards as Whittaker Don Dubbins as Uban David Alpert as Engstrand

Crew Cary O'Dell - Art Director Jean Louis - Costume Designer Carter De Haven, Jr. - First Assistant Director Edward Dmytryk - Director William Lyon - Editor Henry Batista - Editor Max Steiner - Composer (Music Score) Freddy Karger - Songwriter Clarence Gaskill - Songwriter Jimmy McHugh - Songwriter Wouk - Songwriter Clay Campbell - Makeup Rudolph Sternad - Production Designer Franz Planer - Cinematographer Stanley Kramer - Producer Frank A. Tuttle - Set Designer Lawrence W. Butler - Special Effects Lambert Day - Sound/Sound Designer Michael Blankfort - Screenwriter Stanley Roberts - Screenwriter Herman Wouk - Book Author

The Caine Mutiny
In bringing Herman Wouk's novel about life aboard a destroyer-minesweeper in the Pacific during World War II to the screen, producer Stanley Kramer was working under numerous constraints. Knowing that The Caine Mutiny would be Kramer's final film for the company, Columbia Pictures president Harry Cohn made sure the budget on The Caine Mutiny was cut to the absolute bone, and took the chance that Bogart's name, coupled with the popularity of the book, would ensure a hit film. From such a financial and creative straightjacket, a great film was made, mostly by virtue of Edward Dmytryk's direction and some excellent central performances: not just Humphrey Bogart's tired, troubled Lt. Comdr. Queeg, but also Van Johnson as the well-meaning but ultimately foolhardy first officer Lt. Maryk; Robert Francis as the naïve and very foolish Ensign Keith; Fred MacMurray as the glib-tongued, manipulative Lt. Keefer; and Jose Ferrer as the unwilling defense attorney Barney Greenwald, who achieves a victory that has nothing to do with justice, right and wrong, or truth. Bogart gives one of his finest late-career performances, calling up the same mixture of bravado, fear, and irrationality that informed his performance as Fred C. Dobbs in John Huston's The Treasure of the Sierra Madre six years before, crawling with little neurotic affects that make him startling to watch. Coupled with MacMurray's smooth-talking treacherousness and Johnson's stalwart performance, plus Francis' bright-eyed, bushy-tailed enthusiasm, the characters make for a memorable and compelling two-hour-plus dramatic experience. ~ Bruce Eder, All Movie Guide
 

Edward Dmytryk: Directors Guild of America, Best Director (nominated) Henry Batista: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie, Best Editing (nominated) Humphrey Bogart: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie, Best Actor (nominated) John P. Livadary: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie, Best Sound (nominated) Max Steiner: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie, Best Drama or Comedy Score (nominated) Stanley Roberts: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie, Best Screenplay (nominated) Tom Tully: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie, Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Pic (nominated) William Lyon: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie, Best Editing (nominated)

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie, Best Picture (nominated) British Academy of Film and Television, Best British Film (nominated)

General Specifications: Language Options: English, French Subtitle Options: English, French Sound Processing: DD2: Dolby Digital Stereo Additional Features: Digitally remastered for the best possible picture and sound Retrospective documentary: Inside the Caine Mutiny Commentary with Richard Peña and Ken Bowser DVD Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1: Theatre Wide-Screen MPAA Rating: NR DVD Discs Included: 1 DVD Sides: 1 DVD DVD Region Code: 1 Content Length: 125 min   DVD Chapters: Disc #1 -- The Caine Mutiny 1. Start [9:10] 2. The Caine [7:00] 3. Officers' Mess [10:24] 4. Lt. Commander Queeg [3:39] 5. Officers' Meeting [3:55] 6. Target Towing [7:10] 7. Back to San Francisco [5:56] 8. Back Aboard the Caine [1:33] 9. Battle Orders [5:33] 10. "Yellowstain Blues" [3:42] 11. Unbalanced Question [:15] 12. General Drill [4:33] 13. No More Strawberries [1:37] 14. A Very Simple Plan [4:00] 15. Article 184 [1:46] 16. Who Ate the Strawberries [2:01] 17. Official Business [1:37] 18. Typhoon [5:12] 19. "I'm Relieving You." [4:45] 20. Lt. Barney Greenwald [4:41] 21. The Charge [3:23] 22. First Witness [1:13] 23. Second & Third Witness [3:31] 24. Fourth Witness [1:05] 25. Fifth Witness [3:14] 26. Sixth Witness [4:31] 27. The Finale [2:26] 28. Celebration [7:54]