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- 1954
- Approved
- Columbia Pictures
- 2 h 4 m
- 1954
- Approved
- Columbia Pictures
- 2 h 4 m
Summary When a U.S. Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardizes the ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial for mutiny.
Directed By: Edward Dmytryk
Written By: Stanley Roberts, Michael Blankfort, Herman Wouk
- 1954
- Approved
- Columbia Pictures
- 2 h 4 m
- 1954
- Approved
- Columbia Pictures
- 2 h 4 m
The Caine Mutiny
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Summary When a U.S. Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardizes the ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial for mutiny.
Directed By: Edward Dmytryk
Written By: Stanley Roberts, Michael Blankfort, Herman Wouk
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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75% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
63
75% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
25% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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Director Edward Dmytryk, working from a top-notch script adapted from Herman Wouk's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, makes Bogie's gradual breakdown under relentless cross-examination from defense lawyer Jose Ferrer a superb example of screen melodrama. [21 Nov 1986, p.92]
The Caine Mutiny is highly recommendable motion picture drama, told on the screen as forcefully as it was in the Herman Wouk best-selling novel. The intelligently adapted screenplay retains all the essence of the novel.
Complex, atypical Bogie performance is keynote for strong drama from Pulitzer-winning novel and Broadway show.
The Caine Mutiny, though somewhat garbled, is a vibrant film.
The Caine Mutiny is not distinctive filmmaking or storytelling, and its idea of ethical debate is relying on familiar archetypes and arguments. It sure is standard, though. It’s like the well-constructed house that’s not meant to be distinctive, but was made to endure.
Bogie's considerable charisma is visibly weakened by his tired appearance, and the strong cast is never really allowed full rein by Dmytryk, whose abiding concern that fair play be seen to be done, with regard to all the characters' various motivations, makes for a stodgily liberal courtroom drama.
Despite a few flashes of talent in the 40s, Edward Dmytryk had descended to hack status by the time he filmed this 1954 version of Herman Wouk's novel, and his ham-fisted direction does little to alleviate the obviousness of the drama and the thinness of the characterizations.
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Generally Favorable
Based on 9 User Ratings
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78% Positive
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