“The Caine Mutiny” quotes
(1954)
Title The Caine Mutiny
Year 1954
Director Edward Dmytryk
Genre Drama, War
Year 1954
Director Edward Dmytryk
Genre Drama, War
Plot – Pearl Harbour, 1943. Ensign Willie Keith has just finished the Academy and has decided to embark on the minesweeper "Caine", but onboard there's a mess. Commander De Vriess and Second Steve Maryk are two capable officers but the other crew's members don't work properly. When De Vriess is replaced by Commander Queeg, Willie is happy, but soon he notices in the new commander something strange. Queeg in fact suffers from nervous exhaustion due to his military career and during a typhoon the second officer is forced to take the command. The dramatic episode leads to a general mutiny because Queeg can't hope in his subordinates' understanding anymore.
All actors – Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer, Van Johnson, Fred MacMurray, Robert Francis, May Wynn, Tom Tully, E.G. Marshall, Arthur Franz, Lee Marvin, Warner Anderson, Claude Akins, Katherine Warren, Jerry Paris, Steve Brodie, , David Alpert, Don Anderson, Herbert Anderson, James Best, Whit Bissell, Robert Bray, James Conaty, Ted Cooper, Don Dillaway, Don Dubbins, Johnny Duncan, James Edwards, Ben Harris, Sam Harris, Joe Haworth, Roy Jenson, Todd Karns, Don Keefer, Edward Laguna, Frank Losee Jr., Dayton Lummis, Kenneth MacDonald, Paul McGuire, Tyler McVey, Patrick Miller, Richard Norris, Barry Norton, Steve Pendleton, Jay Richards, Gene Starns, Bert Stevens, James Todd, John Tomeck
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“The first thing you've got to learn about this ship is that she was designed by geniuses to be run by idiots.”
“Mr. Maryk, you may tell the crew for me that there are four ways of doing things aboard my ship: The right way, the wrong way, the Navy way, and my way. They do things my way, and we'll get along.”
“Aboard my ship, excellent performance is standard, standard performance is sub-standard, and sub-standard performance is not permitted to exist - that, I warn you.”
“- Lt. Barney Greenwald: Doctor, you have testified that the following symptoms exist in Lieutenant Commander Queeg's behavior: rigidity of personality, feelings of persecution, unreasonable suspicion, a mania for perfection, and a neurotic certainty that he is always in the right. Doctor, isn't there one psychiatric term for this illness?
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