The movie is clearly the product of some compromises and producer meddling to sand the rougher edges off the source material but its still worth seeing. Bogart is legitimately great here, one of his best performances.

top notch esp script performances and how to be horrible with honor lol

Bogart is excellent and very convincing. The dilemma is good and all runs smoothly until the final half hour. Unfortunately the courtroom drama is mediocre, whilst the ending is melodramatic and a real disappointment. Watched on DVD.

One of my favourites with Humphrey Bogart showing his class, taking on an unsympathetic role, brilliantly revealing his character's foibles. The rest of the cast is similarly strong, with Van Johnson and Jose Ferrer as particular stand-outs.

A very good drama with conflicted characters and a great flip of the entire narrative by the end. It is very difficult to disregard how much Bogart makes the whole picture blossom. His performance and his mental state are immensely believable because he never goes off into unhinged yelling.

Starts off slow but it's all worth it in the end. Great drama with great acting. This movie inspired a famous scene from Better Call Saul.

An American classic. Nearly perfect military courtroom procedural. Bogart and Ferrer deserved Oscars for their work.

It was well done, well directed, well acted. I was particularly impressed with Kiefer Sutherland whose performance was nuanced and intelligence, especially because he had the ghost of Humphrey Bogart's 1953 performance hanging over his head. I might quibble a little. The uncertain looks of the judges and the prosecutor were a little early. Queeg's breakdown needed to unfold more slowly. Greenwald's assassination of Queeg was telegraphed too early. But I am quibbling. It was a worthy and professional job throughout.

Very good film (especially the part of court-martial) who puts morale dilemmas. The best Bogart's performance

The plot and the artistic merit turn on Bogart's performance; the problem is Bogart looks too old and haggard (because he is) and one wonders why the entire ensemble is chasing the old guy around. It's not a great look. The production suffered from being pared down more than it should have for commercial purposes and so the entire movie has a turgid feel. I found that I wanted to like it more than I did.

This military/courtroom movie was really good. Humphrey Bogart, Fred MacMurray, Van Johnson, Robert Francis, Jose Ferrer, and the rest of the cast did a fantastic job in this movie. The plot of the movie was dramatic and thrilling. It's about doing what is right even if it means that your life and career could be over. If you haven't seen this classic movie yet, check it out sometime. It's a must see.

I absolutely don’t get it. This guy is a dangerous whack job who puts the lives of his men in needless danger. But in the end we are supposed to think of those who hold him accountable as the bad ones, the ‘heels’, and rotten. They were supposed to give him their support instead of letting the military know how dangerous he was. I have asked several people from the military for an explanation, and none of them can come up with anything reasonable. Good acting though.

"Ah, but the strawberries! That's, THAT's where I had them." Though I have not read the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Herman Wouk that the film is based on, The Caine Mutiny remains a decent watch today because of its status as a character study; though he doesn't show up for some time (and is absent for long stretches of courtroom dialogue), it's Bogart's Lieutenant Commander Queeg that remains the complete focus of the film. While styled as the story's primary antagonist, he is actually a complex figure rather than a reincarnated William Bligh (of Mutiny on the Bounty infamy). His faults put others' lives at risk, but they are demonstrated to have originated out of a sense of duty and are subsequently fanned by the disrespect of those under his command in an unhealthy feedback loop. Simultaneously, he is hardly without sin as he tries to shift blame for his own erratic behavior onto others when it suits him and continues to maintain responsibility even when he comes to the realization that he might no longer be fit for his position. There are no wholly innocent parties in the affair. But this adaptation has a fair bit of weight dragging it down. Apparently the original novel focused much more heavily on fresh-faced Ensign Keith (Robert Francis), but the studio's need to cut material left only the skeleton of a subplot with an on-shore girlfriend and a pretty thin amount of character development as he largely sidesteps the main conflict of the film. The movie also feels pretty fragmented between its naval action and courtroom components, handling each relatively well but showing some frayed edges where they meet up; the transition away from the typhoon (a crux of the film) is shockingly stark and quick. Still, the screenplay manages to fit in a great performance from Bogart as Queeg, particularly his iconic courtroom moment where it slowly dawns on him that he has slit his own throat through his babbling. It might not have the same recognition it once did, but it deserves to be reevaluated by pop culture. Shoutout to an exceptional character performance from Tom Tully as the outwardly lax but world-wise former captain of the Caine, who departs before most of the narrative meat comes to the table but still walked away with an Academy Award nomination. He conveys that sense of tired authority that speaks from experience to a tee. (3.5/5)

Great performances in one of the best military based films of all time

The best performance Humphrey Bogart ever gave is in this compelling ww2 drama. Lots of different angles and well drawn characters.

A fine film of a fine book. Intelligent. I saw it for the second time in many years and it seems to improve with age. Studded with many stars, Van Johnson, Jose Ferror, Fred McMurray, as well as the American Navy (!) and the great Humphrey Bogart who as the mentally disturbed Captain Queeg gives one of the last great performances of his career during the courtroom scene. What an actor. The final very close close-ups show how he well he is able to portray the dignified breakdown of his character. The twist ending only gives depth to the tragic tale.

Brilliant acting, writing, and direction. Perfect pace. Awesome and a dark film about Greatest Generation in WW2.

Ok adaptation but nothing special .

This 1954 film about loyalty, or lack of loyalty, towards a commanding officer still holds up thanks to excellent performances by the entire cast and the steady hand of director Edward Dmytryk.

I have realized over time that movie about men on boats, usually in the Navy, are just not for me as between this film and The Sand Pebbles (1966) I find it difficult to enjoy them. Both films employ an odd blend of slapstick humor and serious drama concerning moral ethics and the mental health of the characters at hand. The film is famous for being one of Humphrey Bogart's last big hits and provided him with his final Best Actor nomination as he gave the sort of over the top performance that he often resisted. Unfortunately a lot of the film is not dominated by Bogart but by Robert Francis who is a charisma vacuum and seems like an entirely unnecessary accessory to the story that the film wants to tell. Willie Keith, Robert Francis, enlists into the Navy and is assigned to the USS Caine which is highly disorganized and run by the casual William De Vriess, Tom Tully, who comes into conflict with Keith. The young man also has to maintain a relationship with attractive singer May Wynn, May Wynn, but finds it hard to continue his relationship with her as his overbearing mother, Katherine Warren, complicates matters. Keith retires and veteran Phillip Queeg, Humphrey Bogart, is brought on board to whip the men into shape but his strictness makes him unpopular with Lieutenant Steve Maryk, Van Johnson, and Lieutenant Tom Keefer, Fred MacMurray. He begins to blame the men for mistakes that he is made and during a storm Maryk leads a mutiny and takes control of the ship. The men are later court martialed for this action and they have clever lawyer Barney Greenwald, Jose Ferrer, defend them and attempt to prove Queeg's insanity. Queeg breaks down when put on the stand but Keefer refuses to admit his part in the mutiny and loses the trust of his peers. Viewed at the time as a great technical achievement this film looks cheap by modern standards as the constant use of green screen and bland cinematography makes it look dated and does not add anything to a story set at sea. This may have been why the film earned many Academy Award nominations as it may have attracted the attention of members who worked on technical aspects of films. I am rarely overtaken with joy at seeing something that is only of value due to how difficult it was to make. Even The Sand Pebbles had more going for it as the blue tones that color the entire film were quite beautiful and the images of ships traveling through the night had a quiet beauty to them. This film is all browns and reds but it's use of Technicolor is not as precise as it should be as there are times where bright colors blend together to make a horrific image. If cinematographer Franz Planer had given the film a more distinctive look and stood out from the crowd of military films produced in the early 1950s I would have found something to praise in the film. Other issues with the film include all of the needless subplots as while I do not find the central story particularly compelling the film could have lost ten minutes by cutting out the romantic subplot. Wynn and Francis were sold as a real life couple at the time so I found it odd that they had so little chemistry in the film. She has a face similar to Jane Wyman but she does not have an ounce of her talent and as she breathily complains about his mother's influence on him I was bored to tears. I am a woman so I find romance more interesting than warfare but when it is so painfully neutered and contrived I derive no enjoyment from it. There is also the strange inclusion of humor in a film that takes itself very seriously as we get a lot of jokes about vomit, pooh and pee. This infantile humor might have appealed to younger audiences that the film wanted to draw in but for adults it seems discordant with the story as a whole. This film drew in big crowds in the early 1950s but it has not endured in the way that other Bogart films have which may be because it is such a slog.