over the sea, let's go, men

Rating: 8/10 (17 October 2018)

Humphrey Bogart continued his impressive streak with this Academy Award-nominated movie about a navy captain whose heavy-handed and sometimes dangerous approach to things resulted in a rebellion among some of his cohorts.
Obviously, the music in "The Caine Mutiny" is pretty hokey, and the love story drags the movie down a bit, but you can't deny the effort that the cast members put into their roles. In the end, it's not about whether Queeg was right or wrong; it's about the things that people do in desperate situations (and that sort of situation is bound to arise out at sea in the middle of a storm). After all, Queeg had spent years in the armed forced, so what did you expect him to do? And then the trial scene is one of the most intense in movie history.
Above all, it's good that Edward Dmytryk was able to find work again. I recommend the movie. Also starring Jose Ferrer, Lee Marvin and Jerry Paris (the neighbor on "The Dick Van Dyke Show").