Review of The Caine Mutiny (1954) by Mark S — 17 Oct 2010

For a start, Angela Lansbury wasn't in this film, so I don't know why flixster has her listed in the cast. Perhaps it's because she was in a film called Mutiny, which was made a few years before this.

Also, the film was released in 1954, not 1952. Anyway, now those gripes are out of the way, The Caine Mutiny is an excellent story and an excellent film, and as the paranoid Captain Queeg Humphrey Bogart gives one of his greatest performances.

I found the little 'romantic interludes' in the film unnecessary and they took away from the intense atmosphere of a ticking time bomb, but overall the film was well directed and well acted, and by all accounts the novel was worthy of its Pulitzer Prize.

The typhoon scenes are very authentic for their day, the courtroom scenes couldn't have been much better and the incident with the strawberries is genius.