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 Amazon.ca: Caine Mutiny (Widescreen/Full Screen): DVD
The Caine Mutiny is a great film and featurea one of the best performance of Humphrey Bogart's life.
The Caine Mutiny is a classic film and deserves much better treatment from the studio.
Humphrey Bogart is heartbreaking as the tragic Captain Queeg in this 1954 film, based on a novel by Herman Wouk, about a mutiny aboard a navy ship during World War II.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0767809688   (712 words)

  
 THE CINEMA LASER DVD REVIEW-- THE CAINE MUTINY
THE CAINE MUTINY is one of Bogart's most memorable films because of his truly standout performance as a less than perfect Naval Officer who snaps under the pressures of command during W.W.II.
THE CAINE MUTINY was made just as Hollywood was moving from the standard 1.33:1 aspect ratio to wide screen and the film looks as though it could be shown either way.
This is the first video incarnation of THE CAINE MUTINY to be offered in wide screen and comes as something of surprise.
www.thecinemalaser.com /dvd_reviews/caine-mutiny-dvd.htm   (763 words)

  
 The Caine Mutiny (1954)
The Caine Mutiny (1954) is the story of shipboard conflict and a mutiny aboard a WWII naval vessel, and the subsequent court-martial trial of the ship's captain.
The film follows in the long tradition of naval mutiny and court-martial films, such as Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), The Sea Wolf (1941), Treasure Island (1950), and Billy Budd (1962).
When DeVriess of the Caine is soon transferred in November 1943, he speaks of the watch given to him as a going away present by a scruffy sailor named Meatball (Lee Marvin): "Might as well have a souvenir of this old bucket.
www.filmsite.org /cain.html   (1450 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Caine Mutiny at Epinions.com
The Caine Mutiny had to make a few concessions to the U.S. Navy in order to use their facilities.
The most important was the disclaimer that begins the film, stating that there had never been a mutiny in the history of the Navy.
Some stock footage is obvious during the sole battle scene, in which the Caine assists a Marine landing on a Japanese-held island.
www.epinions.com /mvie-review-7451-91CD530-38DFEEEE-prod4   (560 words)

  
 Caine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Caine Mutiny, a 1954 film on a fictional mutiny aboard a World War II United States ship.
Caine is a variant spelling of Cain, the eldest son of Adam and Eve in Abrahamic religions.
Caine the Longshot, a character in the manga and anime series Trigun.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Caine   (209 words)

  
 The Caine Mutiny - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The tale is of a mutiny aboard a fictitious, war-weary World War II U.S. Navy destroyer minesweeper, the U.S.S. Caine, provoked by the ongoing tensions between a by-the-book, battle-fatigued, isolated and paranoid captain, Lt.
Looking around for inspiration, he noted that The Caine Mutiny was being shown at the Odeon cinema, and so he decided to change his name to Michael Caine.
Following the opening credits, the epigraph claims that the film's story is non-factual.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Caine_Mutiny   (815 words)

  
 The Caine Mutiny
While some of the more romantic scenes may appear to drag they where integrated into the film to show that the young Ensign already had a lot on his mind when he was thrust into the quagmire of life on the Caine.
Queeg begins by making some dubious decisions, chewing out a sailor for sloppy dress while permitting the Caine to cut it’s own tow line, he is a micro manager that is obsessed with picayune details while losing track of what is important.
The final act of this drama comes during the court marshal of the officers of the Caine.
www.hometheaterinfo.com /caine_muntiny.htm   (1058 words)

  
 Caine Mutiny
The story is by now well known, and there have been several adaptions of this book, including "The Caine Mutiny Court Marshall", which, while good as far as it goes, fails to illustrate the chain of events which led to the trial in the first place.
What a fantastic picture "The Caine Mutiny" is. Of the three Humphrey Bogart pictures I've seen ("Casablanca" [1942] and "The Maltese Falcon" [1941] are the other two), "The Caine Mutiny" is my favorite.
This film, however, does it all, and the actual trial in the final forty minutes or so of the picture is the climax.
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 caine-mutiny
From Variety 's review of the film: "The Caine Mutiny is highly recommendable motion picture drama, told on the screen as forcefully as it was in the Herman Wouk best-selling novel.
Bogart is a standout a Captain Queeg, the skipper of the Caine.
An all-star cast effectively brings this tale of a modern mutiny to the screen.
yorty.sonoma.edu /filmfrog/reviews/c/caine-mutiny.html   (121 words)

  
 Playbill Features: Courtroom Drama Descends on Broadway with Caine Mutiny Revival
Playwright Wouk debuted The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial on Broadway in 1954 (the book also served as the basis for the 1954 Humphrey Bogart film).
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial pits Lieutenant Stephen Maryk against Lieutenant Commander Queeg as Maryk relieves his minesweeper commander of duty after deciding Queeg has become too mentally unstable to pilot their World War II vehicle, the USS Caine.
Just in time to mark the third anniversary of the Iraq War, Broadway will be setting up its own military tribunal with a revival of Herman Wouk’s 1954 courtroom drama The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial at the Schoenfeld Theatre.
www.playbill.com /features/article/98689.html   (724 words)

  
 Review: Caine Mutiny
The Caine Mutiny is a very good Widescreen transfer, excepting the scenes with stock footage, which are obviously different from the celluloid of the film.
www.dvdbeaver.com /film/_dvd/0000002b.htm   (146 words)

  
 Caine Mutiny
The Caine Mutiny employs this stylistic pattern once more in order to represent the film's most bizarre legal drama, the case of a missing quart of frozen strawberries.
Although The Caine Mutiny certainly respects the "realities" of Navy law and procedures, it can also be seen as a sophisticated look, through the codes and conventions of Classical Hollywood, at issues that both encompass and reach beyond maritime law.
The camera films the three officers from the beaten-up Caine, Maryk clutching his log, in medium and close-up shots, but employs long, overhead shots to represent Halsey's sleek, ultramodern New Jersey.
tarlton.law.utexas.edu /lpop/etext/jmlc/rosenberg31.htm   (3465 words)

  
 Cinema-Graphe - The Caine Mutiny
I'd pit Jose Ferrer's lawyer Greenwald (the defense counsel in THE CAINE MUTINY) all by himself against the three attorneys of A FEW GOOD MEN.
The CAINE MUTINY goes after the matter head on, and doesn't get lost hero-worshipping the attorneys (like FEW GOOD MEN does).
Bogart is excellent as the Caine's captain, and Fred MacMurray smiles and charms his way perfectly in the role of Tom Keefer.
eeweems.com /cinemagraphe/caine_mutiny.html   (259 words)

  
 eBay - VHS: The Caine Mutiny
The Caine Mutiny is a superb character study and a superb final performance in Humphrey Bogart's distinguished film career.
Manned by a great cast, "The Caine Mutiny" is a classic, despite a few flaws.
THE CAINE MUTINY features the debuts of Robert Francis and May Wynn.
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 The Caine Mutiny Summary & Essays - Herman Wouk
Herman Wouk's best-selling novel The Caine Mutiny, subtitled A Novel of World War II, remains one of the greatest American novels to come out of World War II.
The Caine Mutiny Summary & Essays - Herman Wouk
Wouk, himself a WWII veteran who had served aboard minesweepers in the South Pacific, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1952 for this account of a mutiny aboard a fictional minesweeper, the USS Caine.
www.enotes.com /caine-mutiny   (230 words)

  
 Naufts and Sikora Join Caine Mutiny Company, Broadway.com Buzz
Nauffts is set to play Lt. Thomas Keefer (portrayed by Fred MacMurray in the 1954 film version) in The Caine Mutiny Court-Marshal.
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, directed by Jerry Zaks, is scheduled to begin performances at the Lyceum Theatre on April 14 in preparation for a May 7 opening.
Geoffrey Nauffts and Joe Sikora will be part of the cast of the upcoming Broadway revival of The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial.
www.broadway.com /gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=525659   (414 words)

  
 The Last Castle
The film borrows piecemeal from many prison and court-martial movies, most notably "The Caine Mutiny," "Cool Hand Luke," "Mutiny on the Bounty" and "A Few Good Men." Gandolfini makes an appealing monster but goes full-bore too quickly.
Regarding "The Last Castle," our film critic writes, "DreamWorks might be nervous about a movie concerning what amounts to a military mutiny coming out in the current climate, but thematically, the film is as gung-ho as a John Wayne war movie."
The film might have indulged in some ambivalence in the Irwin vs. Winter duel; it might have toyed, say, with the notion that a prison command is totally unlike a battlefield command, and not every tactic employed by Winter is dead wrong.
www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1084930   (414 words)

  
 Caine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Caine Mutiny, a 1954 film on a fictional mutiny aboard a World War II United States ship.
Caine is a variant spelling of Cain, the eldest son of Adam and Eve in Abrahamic religions.
Caine the Longshot, a character in the manga and anime series Trigun.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Caine   (209 words)

  
 War and Anti-War Films
Director Edward Dmytryk's The Caine Mutiny (1954), another film with Bogart and an adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Herman Wouk novel, told the story of shipboard conflict and a mutiny aboard a WWII naval vessel (USS Caine), and the subsequent court-martial trial of the paranoid ship's captain.
Guy Hamilton's The Battle of Britain (1969), with Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer and Robert Shaw as RAF pilots, accurately captured how valiant the British were 'under fire' during the many air battles and bombing raids of the German Luftwaffe in the summer and autumn of 1940.
Together, as representatives of the American and British positions, they confronted the Germans on the geographical margins of the major conflict.
www.filmsite.org /warfilms3.html   (1620 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: DVD: The Caine Mutiny [IMPORT]
Otherwise, "The Caine Mutiny" is a great film, one that many persons can find something to like.
"The Caine Mutiny" follows the story of the men aboard the minesweeper U.S.S Caine during the period of 1943-44 in the pacific war.
The crew of the USS Caine resents Captain Queeg, who places the blame for a series of blunders and petty infractions on the crew.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004D0H9   (1581 words)

  
 The Caine Mutiny (1954)
The Caine Mutiny (1954) is the story of shipboard conflict and a mutiny aboard a WWII naval vessel, and the subsequent court-martial trial of the ship's captain.
The film follows in the long tradition of naval mutiny and court-martial films, such as Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), The Sea Wolf (1941), Treasure Island (1950), and Billy Budd (1962).
The film with the tagline: "Big As The Ocean," was based upon Herman Wouk's best-selling, and 1951 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, from a screenplay by Stanley Roberts.
www.filmsite.org /cain.html   (1581 words)

  
 Michael Caine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This proved to be paradoxical, as Caine was quickly to become notable for using a regional accent, rather than the Received Pronunciation hitherto considered proper for film actors.
Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s Caine alternated between acclaimed performances in films such as Educating Rita (1983) and Mona Lisa (1986), and unashamedly mercenary roles in notorious duds such as Jaws: The Revenge (as Hoagie Newcombe) (1987) and On Deadly Ground (1994).
Looking around for inspiration, he noted that The Caine Mutiny was being shown at the Odeon cinema, and so he decided to change his name to "Michael Caine".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_Caine   (867 words)

  
 Michael Caine
The film was loved by critics and audiences, and Caine won another Golden Globe for his portrayal of Ray Say.
Along the way, he ditched his name in favor of the more urbane appellation of Caine as a tribute to his favorite movie, The Caine Mutiny, and plopped Michael beside it.
Caine, who has two daughters (one with first wife Patricia, and one with second wife Shakira), was awarded a knighthood in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in 2000 for his contribution to the performing arts.
www.tribute.ca /bio.asp?id=2862   (447 words)

  
 The Caine Mutiny (1954)
The film follows in the long tradition of naval mutiny and court-martial films, such as Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), The Sea Wolf (1941), Treasure Island (1950), and Billy Budd (1962).
The film with the tagline: "Big As The Ocean," was based upon Herman Wouk's best-selling, and 1951 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, from a screenplay by Stanley Roberts.
The truths of this film lie not in its incidents but in the way a few men meet the crisis of their lives.
www.filmsite.org /cain.html   (1448 words)

  
 The Caine Mutiny (1954) - mistakes, nitpicks, trivia, locations
Is there anyone left who doesn't know that Michael Caine (born Maurice Mickelwhite) took his stage name from this film?
Halsey's flagship is an aircraft carrier, apparently the USS Kearsage (CV33), while this is an Essex class ship, a type used in WW2, the Kearsage herself was not launched until after the war.
The officers go to visit Admiral Halsey with their concerns about Queeg (Humphrey Bogart).
www.continuitycorner.com /Cfilm/00021.htm   (76 words)

  
 Film Noir Series 2000 - SNIPER
Following prison and the blacklist, director Edward Dmytryk (1908-1999) made four films for producer Stanley Kramer, including THE CAINE MUTINY and this lesser known, yet equally powerful, noir thriller.
Arthur Franz is Eddie Miller, a deranged soul who cannot stop killing women, and Adolphe Menjou is Lt. Kafka, hellbent on fulfilling the madman's request to capture him.
www.laemmle.com /series/filmnoir/sniper.html   (57 words)

  
 The Canine Mutiny - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The episode title is a play on the 1954 Edward Dmytryk film The Caine Mutiny.
"The Canine Mutiny" is an episode from the eighth season of "The Simpsons."
After sending Bart away with Santa's Little Helper, Chief Wiggum declares its time to party as the Bob Marley song Jammin' plays over the end credits.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Canine_Mutiny   (757 words)

  
 breaker
I expected it to be more along the lines of The Caine Mutiny, another movie about a possible crime from the inside.
Many anti-war films work on the feeling that war is fundamentally absurd; that both the rules and the actions of war are beyond the rational scope of civilized humanity.
The entire film focuses on the case and the events surrounding it, and does not include any extraneous or useless sub-plots.
www.angelfire.com /movies/davidsmovies/breaker.html   (643 words)

  
 Playbill News: Caine Mutiny to Open on Broadway Next Season; Zaks Directs
Wouk debuted The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial on Broadway in 1954 (the book also served as the basis for the 1954 Humphrey Bogart film).
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial pits Lieutenant Stephen Maryk against Lieutenant Commander Queeg as Maryk relieves his minesweeper commander of duty after deciding Queeg has become too mentally unstable to pilot their World War II vehicle, the USS Caine.
He is accused of mutiny and put on trial by the Navy.
www.playbill.com /news/article/93166.html   (331 words)

  
 The Caine Mutiny (1954)
The film follows in the long tradition of naval mutiny and court-martial films, such as Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), The Sea Wolf (1941), Treasure Island (1950), and Billy Budd (1962).
The film with the tagline: "Big As The Ocean," was based upon Herman Wouk's best-selling, and 1951 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, from a screenplay by Stanley Roberts.
The truths of this film lie not in its incidents but in the way a few men meet the crisis of their lives.
www.filmsite.org /cain.html   (331 words)

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