The Caine Mutiny (1954) Directed by Edward Dmytryk (125 minutes)

During World War II, the crew of a small insignificant ship in the U.S. Pacific Fleet experience an event unlike any event ever experienced by the United States Navy. A ship’s captain is removed from command by his Executive Officer in an apparent outright act of mutiny. As the trial of the mutineers unfold, it is learned that the captain of the ship was mentally unstable, perhaps even insane. The Navy must decide if the Caine Mutiny was a criminal act, or an act of courage to save a ship
from destruction at the hands of her captain?

Starring Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer, Van Johnson and Fred MacMurray, this film is based on the book, The Caine Mutiny, a 1951 war novel written by Herman Wouk that won the 1952 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The novel draws on Herman Wouk’s own service on U.S. Navy minesweepers in the Pacific during World War II.