Mediocre

Rating: 5/10 (18 September 2019)

Its a shame the Navy wouldn't allow a film to be made showing mutiny on a US ship, because thus is exactly what occurred on this film. Not only that, but tge Navy required the studio to put a statement on the screen just as ut begins: (Paraphrasing) "There has never been a mutiny aboard any US Navy ship", etc. It's way over the top in which the studio was limited as to what the Navy would ir wouldn't allow to be shown, it takes the "heart" right out if the film. This is truly traguc, simply because it was made during the "McCarthy Era" (the 1950s) when the fear of "Communism" was set ablaze by Senator Joe McCarthy, the he "fanned the flames". He had a committee which succeeded in blackballing a dozen great screen writers and numerous other movie Hollywood people: some of the very best. Consequently, a brilliantly cast film had it's "claws removed" and was "de-fanged" (to use "feline" euphemisms). Besides Humphrey Bogart, you have Fred McMurray, Van Johnson, Jose Ferrer, and even a young Lee Marvin. Overall, it is the opposite of a brilliant film made 38 years later: "A Few Good Men" (1992), which the US Navy did not like, and threw their weight around on it, too. However, they didn't really succeed at stopping anything. Amazingly, "The Caine Mutiny" received 7 Academy Award nominations, Including Best Picture and Best Actor. Overall, I don't like it. All because of the Nacy censorship was so powerful at the time. It ruoned the entire plot. I still rated it at 5 stars; simply for the cast and what tgey did manage to show.