the good ship Bogart

Rating: 10/10 (27 June 2006)

i love this movie. it's one of my favorite movies. Fred McMurray's Keefer is a downright sleaze, who by todays standards would be considered as a study in passive aggressiveness. Whereas Bogie's Queeg is worn out by his duty. Bogie is masterful in his performance, but it's also clear the centerpiece of this film is Fred MacMurray, as Keefer who isn't someone you want to be in a foxhole with. Robert Francis is clearly playing someone who knows the book but needs real life experience. Francis wasn't as bad as he's portrayed in this movie. I've seen his other two movies They Rode West, and The Long Gray Line, which he was in before dying in a plane crash at the age of 25. Given the chance he probably would've became a solid actor. The supporting cast of well known and soon to be well known character actors is top notch.