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Date  Helpful Rating 0 out of 0 users found this helpful  The Caine MutinyPosted: 7/10/2006A review of The Caine Mutiny by G_Weir Bogart made a career out of playing unshakable characters Rick, Sam Spade, Phillip Marlowe- but he could also break down like no one else, something we saw in Treasure of the Sierra Madre and again here in the Caine Mutiny. Bogarts over-extended U.S. navy captain is a complicated, richly-nuanced creation that we only get to see in certain lightsusually bad ones, which leads us, and the crew of his ship, to certain assumptions that may or may not be accurate. And right there to inflate the meaning of Bogarts every sliplarge and small--is Fred McMurrays equally well portrayed and equally complex first lieutenanta persuasive man who champions ideas that have little to do with his own convictions.
The third of the great performances in this film comes during the climactic court martial hearing, where naval attorney José Ferrer owns the courtroom (and the screen) performing a duty he would rather not have, but doing it to the utmost of his ability. It is interesting to watched this scene after Tom Cruise covered similar territory in a A Few Good Men. Unlike Cruises conflicted, in-over-his-head attorney, Ferrer never worries, never frets, and the film is made more real by the idea that am man in his position knows what he is doing, and is good at it.
To younger viewers Theres going to be some crappy special effects of a ship in a storm. Hey, it was 1954deal with it. Was this review helpful? Sign In 1 out of 1 users found this helpful  Portrait of ParanoiaPosted: 2/25/2003A review of The Caine Mutiny by lowellv70 Classic cinema cataloging the fictional revolt. The U.S.S. Caine is a minesweeper politely described as the 'armpit' of the Navy and is run in a very loose but effective manner. However; the time has come for a change of command in the form of Lt. Cmdr. Phillip Francis Queeg. Queeg is a small statured 'by-the-book' officer who keeps to himself; pretty much a 180 from the old skipper. But Queeg carries an air of acute paranoia with him and cannot gain the crew's confidence. Finally, in the midst of an emergency; the First Officer must take things into his own hands, calling down the first inquest of Mutiny in Naval history. The issues of loyalty versus confidence must be addressed as men are forced to reckon with their own collective conscience in the matter of command incompetence. A sparkling effort giving us a career marking performance for Jose Ferrer; the odd-man-out attorney who is forced against his training to slap down a brother for the good of the service. Was this review helpful? Sign In 1-2 of 2 Per Page | ||
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