The mutiny is a rebellion against the established order. Such rebellion implies disobedience to the chain of command.
It constitutes the crime as mutiny. This revolt is extremely dangerous, especially if it is carried out on a Naval Navy ship, at the height of a war.
But this riot manages to be consummated before a latent event (a cyclone); For this reason, it was possible that due to an atmospheric phenomenon, the entire crew could perish due to the lack of action of the commander, thus achieving the right moment for said uprising.
Here comes the big question: Was it necessary in the face of a catastrophic event and a supposedly “insane” commander to make such a riot?
This whole event is well outlined with terrific performances in the 1954 movie “The Caine Mutiny” directed by Edward Dmytryk.
The plot is located in a minesweeper (Ship) named USS Caine, at the height of World War II.
The new commander Queeg (Humphrey Bogart) assumes command of the ship characterized by implanting an iron discipline, in which said crew was not used.
This new chief begins to have very rigid observations and to punish sailors for very simple behaviors, starting with Lieutenant Keefer (Fred McMurray) starting a conspiratorial plot claiming that Commander Queeg has delusions or mental disorders.
At a certain point, faced with the fury of the winds of a powerful hurricane, Commander Queeg loses his sanity and sanity, and the second officer in command, named Maryk (Van Johnson), is instigated by Keefer to relieve his superior. and he is confined to his cabin.
The mutiny has been consummated. For this fact they will all have to answer to a Council of War raised by their former commander.
The behavior and circumstances in which Commander Queeg lost his sense of the moment for a period of time leads us to ask whether the actions of his subordinates were correct.
Now, for the second officer in command Maryk to make the decision of the mutiny, he had to have someone do the work of imp as the instigating entity as always happens.
That person was Lieutenant Keefer, a kind of pseudo intellectual who starts from the first moment to incite rebellion and try to convince his companions to take rebellious action. But this individual is a cowardly and liar man who is very badly off at the end of the plot as individuals who hide behind a facade of double standards tend to be.
The film delineates the behaviors of each individual very well, reflecting in them the various contradictions without having someone who could be a balanced entity among all.
The performances are very good from the supporting cast; but Humphrey Bogaert’s superb interpretive demonstration is extraordinary that it is still referred to today.
The director Edward Dymtryk manages to concatenate each shot to give that climactic moment, both on the command bridge and at the time of the trial to create maximum tension, and thus trap the viewer in their seats under a very well achieved suspense scheme.
“El Mutín del Caine” is a real bet to spend two hours of pure good cinema.
So we recommend it to this new generation who may not have seen it, and to those who could see it before, it is worth viewing it again.
Curiosities of the film:
1) The film is an adaptation of the novel by Herman Wouk, whose stage version had been a hit in 1953 with Henry Fonda in the role of the neurotic captain.
2) It is the favorite film of the actor Maurice Joseph Micklewhite, from which he adopted part of his name as a surname. We are referring to actor Michael Caine.
3) Despite the war environment, Edward Dmytryk’s film does not deal with any battle and does not even show the enemies that the Allied Navy faces.
Rather, it is a story of a moral order, and what it puts on the scene is the legitimacy of some officers when they riot.
4) It had a budget of two million dollars and raised a sum over twenty million to the delight of its producers.
Some of the curiosities were taken from the cultfilms page.blogspot.com
Data sheet:
Rating: 4/5 (Very Good) Original Name: The Caine Mutiny Year: 1954
Running Time: 124 minutes From Director Edward Dmytryk: Blacklisted Ukrainian-born filmmaker during the Witch Hunt in the Age of McCarthyism.
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