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Great classic about a group of Navy officers forced to assume command of a ship whose new captain, worn and fatigued from years of previous combat, finally lost his marbles. Fred McMurray plays the intellectual who diagnoses the captain's mental illness and encourages potentially mutinous actions, but then wimps out and lets his mates take the heat when the hammer comes down. May Wynn portrays herself as an extreme high-maintenance pain in the BUTT to Ensign Keith, who ends up marrying her and will probably regret it the rest of his life. It seems every time she speaks, you're compelled to say "Can we at least talk about a REAL problem if you're gonna ruin my day?" This is my third copy of the movie, so yeah - I like it.
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This DVD is the Collector's Edition of the now classic Humphrey Bogart performance of the paranoid late-WWII Navy Captain Queeg who took over the helm of a dilapidated mine sweeper: the Caine. The story is about his inability to gain the respect of his rule-bending crew (played in supporting roles by Claude Akins, Robert Francis, Van Johnson, Fred MacMurray, E.G. Marshall, and Lee Marvin) due to what MacMurray is convinced are obsessive & clinically paranoid behaviors. Wealthy, young Ensign Keith (Francis), fresh out of the naval academy, is surprisingly assigned to the Caine, a dump of a ship with a lax captain & totally undisciplined crew. When the rusty capt. is replaced by Queeg (Bogie), the green Ensign is pleased by the new man at the helm's immediate displays of strict rule-following & disciplinary consequences for rule-breaking. As Queeg instructs the eager Ensign to take unpopular roles in cleaning up the Caine's crew, the Lieutenant's (MacMurray) armchair psychoanalytic suspicions grow & fuel the lazy crew's criticism of their new captain. During a treacherous storm at sea, Captain Queeg freezes. Influenced by the Lieutenant's psycho-theory that the captain is nuts, the crew stages a controversial mutiny--taking control over the ship in order to save it from sinking in the storm. Afterwards, 2 of the crew face being court-martialed for mutiny. They are defended by a reluctant but shrewd military lawyer (José Ferrer). Director Dmytryk's adaptation & direction of Herman Wouk's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel brings out one of Bogart's greatest performances as a character who bears little resemblance to any of his previous ones. The whole ship crew deliver terrific supporting performances. All of these elements combining together is what makes "The Caine Mutiny," an all time seafaring, late WWII classic.Read full review
Great DVD. Has both wide screen and full screen formats. Shipping seemed a little high, considering it was only the disc, not the original boxed item. Overall, I am happy with the purchase.
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classic movie - really well done and a compelling story. well-developed characters to tell the story - great actors.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
This is a great combination of a psychological drama and a war movie with a trial thrown in and a great message.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: New
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