Harold B. Lee Library

The Caine Mutiny

Humphrey Bogart, Jose Ferrer, Van Johnson, Fred MacMurray, Tom Tully

• Time: 7:00 PM
• Date: Friday, May 23, 2008
• Place: HBLL Auditorium, 1st Floor; Admission is free; arrive early for seats.

About the Event
The image of Bogart as Commander Philip Francis Queeg breaking down on the witness stand, nervously rolling steel ball bearings as he endures the grilling of Navy defense attorney Ferrer, has become a stock image in American culture. It comes from this Oscar-nominated adaptation of Herman Wouk’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of three officers, lead by second-in-command Johnson, who take over a US Navy minesweeper destroyer–the Caine of the film’s title–from Bogart in a typhoon and live to stand trial. Bogart charts new acting territory under Edward Dmytryk’s expert direction, earning Bogart an Academy Award nomination, along with the film itself, screenwriter Stanley Roberts, Tom Tully, film editor William Lyon, and composer Max Steiner. Location filming at Pearl Harbor and in the surrounding Hawaiian waters plus the initially reluctant cooperation of the US Navy helped to make The Caine Mutiny one of the most commercially successful movies of the decade. Stanley Kramer Prods./Columbia Pictures. 1954. 125 mins. Technicolor. Director: Edward Dmytryk.

Links and Materials

• Digital Copy of Original Poster

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