The Caine Mutiny [Region 2] | ![The Caine Mutiny [Region 2]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QQTBXJW7L._SL500_.jpg)
| Director: Edward Dmytryk
Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Jose Ferrer, Van Johnson, Fred Macmurray, Robert Francis
Category: DVD
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Rating:  91 reviews
Sales Rank: 266154
Format: Anamorphic, Full Screen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), German (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Italian (Subtitled), Hindi (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Turkish (Subtitled), Danish (Subtitled), Icelandic (Subtitled), Swedish (Subtitled), Hungarian (Subtitled), Polish (Subtitled), Dutch (Subtitled), Arabic (Subtitled), Finnish (Subtitled), Czech (Subtitled), Greek (Subtitled)
Region: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Running Time: 124 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.2 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 3333297500180
ASIN: B00004VXW2
Theatrical Release Date: June 24, 1954
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Humphrey Bogart is heartbreaking as the tragic Captain Queeg in this 1954 film, based on a novel by Herman Wouk, about a mutiny aboard a navy ship during World War II. Stripped of his authority by two officers under his command (played by Van Johnson and Robert Francis) during a devastating storm, Queeg becomes a crucial witness at a court martial that reveals as much about the invisible injuries of war as anything. Edward Dmytryk (Murder My Sweet, Raintree County) directs the action scenes with a sure hand and nudges his all-male cast toward some of the most well-defined characters of 1950s cinema. The courtroom scenes alone have become the basis for a stage play (and a television movie in 1988), but it is a more satisfying experience to see the entire story in context. --Tom Keogh
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 The Caine Mutiny May 9, 2009
Dorothy M. Tyree (Flagstaff, AZ)
I bought this movie for a paper I had to write for a psychology class. The movie isn't something I would have watched for personal enjoyment however, the DVD was new and in perfect condition. I received the DVD in 1 day!
Who is guilty and who is not? March 19, 2009
Ron Braithwaite (El Indio, Texas United States)
I rate 'The Caine Mutiny' as the second best of all of the Bogart movies. I rate 'Treasure of Sierra Madre' slightly higher but, in both movies, Bogart's character undergoes a toxic personality breakdown. He does a magnificent job in both movies.
In 'The Caine Mutiny' the flawed Queeg disintegrates under the pressure of battle and gains the perjorative of 'Old Yellow Stains'. Officers, under the influence of the MacMurray character, mutiny, taking over the unhappy ship.
There is a trial in the course of which Queeg totally decompensates under interrogation. The mutineers...who might have been hanged...are acquitted. The defense attorney shows up at the acquittal party. He shows up drunk and angry. He identifies the slimy and cowardly MacMurray character [who, by crawfishing at all the right times, has avoided indictment] as the real author of the 'Caine Mutiny' and throws a drink in his face. A surprise ending for a great movie.
Ron Braithwaite author of novels--'Skull Rack' and 'Hummingbird God'--on the Spanish Conquest of Mexico.
 "There's the right way, the wrong way, the Navy way, and my way--and if you do things my way, we'll get along!" February 8, 2009
Roberto Frangie (Leon, Gto. Mexico)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Queeg (Humphrey Bogart) was simply a man who had seen too much of war... With the excitable tendency of rolling a pair of steel balls in his hand, he censures the error of incorrectness on everything but himself falling as an easy victim to the intrigues of self-serving officers who felt that their panicked captain is mentally not suitable to command the ship...
A subplot, seeming to lack common sense, between two young lovers (Robert Francis and May Wynn) only served to lessen the concentration and distract our attention from the real story... Also, at the court-martial, a long trial sequence, was clearly anticlimactic, though it included the film's most tense and unforgettable scene, that of Queeg disintegrating as he pronounced his statement...
But we had noticed it all before, after all, aboard the Navy destroyer, the U.S.S. Caine... We had seen Queeg as a strict disciplinarian and a compulsive, unstable commander, earning, in his limited imagination, the total disregard of both officers and crew... So we knew what would occur when he got on the witness stand...
"The Caine Mutiny" is a splendid character study, a tale of bravery and cowardice at odds with one another... The film received seven Academy Award nominations included one to Humphrey Bogart who delivered a terrific performance...
"Who Took The Straw-burries?" January 19, 2009
Phoebe Stogstill (by the shores of Gitchee Goomie)
Bogie, Bogie, Bogie. You outdid yourself in this one. Humphrey Bogart's "on the stand" scenes, in which he cracks up and becomes obsessed with which crew member(s) stole the strawberries from the galley, rather than with the serious matters at hand--why his naval crew would commit a mutiny against him are played with perfection. His witness box rants seem to further seal his fate as an officer. The entire cast plays this WWII classic brilliantly. If you have never seen this, you must see.
The Caine Mutiny December 30, 2008
Robert F. Ursprung
Timely delivery and in great condition. Excellent story line and character portraital by the actors
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