A full-length adaptation, originally staged as a play, of the court-martial segment from the novel "The Caine Mutiny".A full-length adaptation, originally staged as a play, of the court-martial segment from the novel "The Caine Mutiny".A full-length adaptation, originally staged as a play, of the court-martial segment from the novel "The Caine Mutiny".
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Ronny Lynch
- Signalman Third Class Junius Urban
- (as Ronald Lynch)
Kenneth V. Jones
- Legal Assistant
- (as Ken Jones)
- Director
- Writer
- Herman Wouk(uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaKeith Carradine was offered the role of Queeg, and it would have reunited him with director Robert Altman for the first time since Nashville (1975). Carradine turned it down due to a conflict with another movie starting Glenn Close. Carradine later regretted it, and Altman never reached out to him again for another role.
- GoofsThe gymnasium floor where trial is held has modern basketball court markings.
- Quotes
Lt. Barney Greenwald: Forget it! I don't take on a case just to lose it!
- ConnectionsFeatured in Altman (2014)
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faithfully prosaic
Overall, this is an entertaining, if not instructive, rendition of what Wouk got onto paper. It's well worth watching for everyone who loved Wouk's novel. The richness of what he wrote has led us to the world of private imagination, and films can seldom satisfy the complexity here. The problem seems to be miscasting in several directions. One is expecting a little more gray and perhaps a bit more subtlety in Davis's performance of the paranoid Queeg; this constant rolling of steel balls is probably overdone. That is to say, perhaps, there is only one Bogart, but there is a certain plausibility missing here. Bogosian makes a capable Greenwald, but once more, there is no solid grounding here of a wounded flier -- and so we also have a puny Keifer and a Maryk without the hue of seamanship. The callow Willie, however, fits the bill, as does Ken Michels as Dr. Bird, the smug psychiatrist. That, we found entertaining. We agree with the first reviewer that the director stepped on some lines with background noise, and we'll never understand why Greenwald had to fight to be heard at the party. In addition, everyone seems about the same age in this movie, like a fraternity costume party. Wouk's work has much to tell us about our own times. We'd like to see someone do this again, with a deeper commitment than what Robert Altman has provided.
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By what name was The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (1988) officially released in Canada in English?
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