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Summary: Bogart on the stand!
Review: The famous film that had Capt. Queeg imitators on Tv for years underscoring Bogarts fine performance. The crew includes MacMurray , Johnson and Franz along with Tum Tully as the first capt. Jose Ferrer shines also and poses the rhetorical question " while you were doing your career "thing"... guys like Capt Queeg were defending your way of life"Robert Francis is also a member of the crew ( also in The Long Grey Line) made just a few films Meatball and Horrible...(lee Marvin and Claude Akins) Tom Tully and Warner Anderson would team up again on the small screen.
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Summary: Perfect combination of actors and story.
Review: The perfect casting of all the right stars (from a young Lee Marvin in a minor role up to Bogie at his best), combined with a accurate depication of live aboard a "tin can", makes for a truly classic film. The final court room scene with Jose Ferrer as the defending attorney is as good as courtroom drama as you can see. A must for any Bogart fan.
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Summary: Well done Classic Bogart
Review: This along with Casablanca rates as one of the alltime best Bogart movies. DVD version has excellent scenes of the ships and shipyards usually left out in the TV versions. Still packs a dramatic punch with great supporting roles by Jose Ferrer as defense attourney, Van Johnson as loyal chief officer and Fred McMurray as the coward.But nothing compares to the final scene by Bogart-"It was the strawberries!" as he rolls his ball bearings in his hands.
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Summary: One of the finest Navy films ever
Review: This film contains as thoughtful a treatment as the medium allows of many key military issues, including: how does a chain of command work; how should subordinates respond to questionable orders by superiors; what is loyalty and to whom should it be given, and why. And like any great movie, it requires the viewer to think, to be drawn in, and to re-evaluate something the viewer had before taken for granted.
This film has special meaning for me because of an incident in my own Navy career. I viewed the film, along with my shipmates, at OCS. However, I didn't fully comprehend its messages until years later and after I had been through an experience onboard that bore some resemblance to the central dilemma posed by the movie. I was ordered by a superior officer to perform an act against regulations by underpaying people going TAD. Those of you who were onboard FFG-12 in 1989 know the superior officer I'm talking about -- the one that was a TAR. Anyhow, I had the facts on my side (see JFTR U4177) and I stood my ground but I did not have the sophistication at the time to understand that my duty encompassed more than just blindly saying "I'm right." I had a further duty to try to ameliorate the situation and provide alternatives. Maybe that was too much to ask from a 24-year old Ensign, but like Caine's Lt. Maryk, I could have been more aggressive in doing the right thing while not disobeying an order.
I do have to mention one major problem about this movie. Although it is quite realistic of many aspects of the Navy and shipboard life, there is one glaring falsity. At the end of the movie, Ensign Keith is promoted the Ltjg. and is shown on another ship as an OOD. That's nutty. Every one of the mutinous officers would never go to sea again, and their careers would effectively be over. What captain in the world would want as a subordinate an officer that had been tried for mutiny, even if he'd been acquitted? What military superstructure would permit such a person to billet on a ship? It just wouldn't happen.
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Summary: This is a classic, I kid you not, kay?
Review: This is one the greatest movie I have ever seen. Bogart is unforgettable as Captain Queeg. Fred MacMurray is the only person I can see playing Tom Keefer.
See this movie. I guarantee you will not be disappointed!
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Summary: Magnificent performances highlight a mezmerizing saga
Review: Though not often listed as one of Bogart's finer films, this tale of duty and madness, hate and friendship is a never the less a masterpiece. Men who never aspired to the Navy uniform hear the call of duty during WWII and find themselves shackled with a paranoid skipper. Their courage and their cowardice, their hardships and their pettiness are superbly acted by Fred MacMurray as a skunk, Van Johnson as the humble hero, and Bogart, who outshines them all as the deeply courageous but battle-weary Commander Phillip Frances Queeg. Add into the mix the droll deadpan of Jose Ferrer as Barney Greenwald for the famous court martial scene, and you have a great night's entertainment in front of you. They don't make movies like this anymore because there are no actors of this stature anymore. Enjoy!
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Summary: Watch Humphrey Bogart play with his balls
Review: Well Bogie is in this so you know this is a five star movie without question. Humphrey Bogart is the greatest actor in the history of the motion picture. Period. Now that I got that out of my system, let us review.
The Caine is an old tub that's only purpose is to tow targets for the battleships. The crew is a motley crew of undisciplined scallywags and pirates. Check out Lee Marvin! He's a dude.
Fred McMurray, yes the Fred McMurray, the original absent minded professor is here as an author with the Navy as a hindrence to his writing career. And of course we have our young Lt. He's a momma's boy full of startch and has the face of a stone. He can't get his love life in order, and he can't satisfy Queeg as the motivation officer. Sailors walking around with their shirt tails out indeed.
But it wasn't the storm that caused the mutiny, nor was it the diary kept by No. 2. No, no, no. The real reason for all the commotion and trouble had to do with one thing and one thing only...Strawberries.
I have studied this picture many times and I belive Captain Queeg was correct. There WAS a key. A secret key made by a ruthlessly clever sailor who was a chow hound and wanted the strawberries for himself. The Navy has always stood for discipline, order, and a force in readiness. To have missing strawberries on board is a capital offense and the the guilty should have been keel hauled.
Bogart's character carefully and intelligently played out the crime as sand was emptied from the tin. Spoonful after spoonful was emptied and still more sand remained, representing the missing strawberries. Messmen ate them? Yeah you go ahead and believe that. That cowardly traitor left the ship and didn't have the guts to say anything. There was a thief and Bogart was hot on his trail until this silly court martial got in his way.
As for 'Old Yellow Stain', well his men should have been paying better attention. Bogie knew what he was doing. The Marines were OK. Cut the target line? It was the crew's fault! They should have tucked their shirts in!
Bogart had one of his best lines in this movie and I use it to this day on many occasions..... "You're an idiot!"
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