#1997 MUTINY MOVIE INSTALL#
#1997 MUTINY MOVIE SERIES#

#1997 MUTINY MOVIE SERIES#

As Queeg’s behavior and performance become more questionable over a series of events - including the now legendary strawberry investigation - Keefer is the ear worm trying to convince Maryk their captain is unfit and insane. The film slowly reveals that, whereas long service had hardened De Vriess, it has taken a toll on Queeg, who reverts to fidgeting with a pair of metal stress relief balls to try and control his anxiety.

Unlike newbie Keith and reservists called up like Maryk and Keefer, Queeg is a career Naval officer.

#1997 MUTINY MOVIE INSTALL#

Keefer especially resents Queeg, if not the Navy itself, for trying to install discipline and order. Learn to quash them.ĭe Vriess is reassigned and replaced by Bogart’s Lieutenant Commander Queeg, and that’s when the trouble begins. All the shortcuts and economies and common-sense changes that your native intelligence suggests to you are mistakes. If you are not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one. The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. It’s cut down from the film - one of the many concessions the Navy needed for cooperation - and the shortened line is given to Keefer in the movie, but the novel had the war weary captain set the scene this way. De Vriess is played by Tom Tully, who got an Academy Awards nomination for best supporting actor for his soliloquy on how the Caine, barely functional after 18 months of unrelenting combat, isn’t the “real” Navy they might have hoped for, but he hopes Maryk is good enough for the Caine anyway, and gives his new officers some advice. The reader’s digest version is Lt Maryk (Johnson) and Ensign Keith (Francis) are newly assigned to the Caine, an overworked and undermanned minesweeper under the command of demanding veteran Lieutenant Commander De Vriess. The film centers on the fictional US Navy minesweeper USS Caine during World War 2, with Humphrey Bogart, Van Johnson, Robert Francis, and Fred MacMurray leading a stellar cast as the crew. The Caine Mutiny came out in 1954, so if you are one of those folks scrupulous about spoiler warnings over a 66 year old film, then consider yourself thusly warned. Among them, one of the great, all-time walk off one-liners of “If you want to do anything about it, I’ll be outside…I’m a lot drunker than you, so it’ll be a fair fight,” a heavyweight cast at their very best, and some timeless subject matter for a then-contemporary war movie. While social media was debating movies with the name “mutiny” in them this morning, seems like a good time to discuss a film that really is one of my all time favorites and the reasons why. Humphrey Bogart as Lieutenant Commander Philip Francis Queeg, Van Johnson as Lieutenant Steve Maryk, Fred MacMurray as Lieutenant Tom Keefer in The Caine Mutiny (1954).

1997 mutiny movie