One of Dmytryk's best

Rating: 7/10 (4 October 2002)

Fairly straightforward story of a minesweeper ship in the U.S. Navy whose new captain, Queeg (Bogart) meets with a cool reception by his crew, driving him into paranoia and eventually a nervous breakdown. He is relieved of command by his reluctant second-in-command (Johnson). The second half of the movie is all about the court marshall. Poor acting from the secondary principles, but MacMurray is particularly well-studied as the officer who is really most responsible for the mutiny. Shows effectively how an event which may appear to be simple may in fact have any number of interpretations and causes.