It's very gratifying when a kid gets one of your obsolete jokes . . . .

I LOVE IT I WISH ID BEEN THERE LOL WE COULD HAVE TRADED LINES BACK AND FORTH ALL DAY

The guy is telling the truth!!!

did you told him?

What year was this? Not long after the movie or long after?

Too good!!

Not our Captain Queeg! Couldn't be him!

I think in the book, it's a little clearer that he's suffering from P.T.S.D.

Indeed. It's an incredible piece of work, even by today's highly refined acting.

The actor played Tom was also good.

That’s Captain Queeg! That’s two demerits and no liberty for 5 weekends. Now swab those decks.

That's the horror of mental illness: the point you really know you've lost it. Bogart's look at that point was perfectly heartbreaking. All the years, the work, the service, the achievement, just gone, replaced by humiliation. He's helpless inside his own mind and a pitiable wreck in the eyes of all those around him, and he finally feels the entire weight of the loss.

absolutely. very realistic and plausible. l watched this film in my teens and went back about 4 times since. Bogie truly was and made the Golden Age

His performance as Dix Steele in the film In A Lonely Place is arguably his best though. Another role where he is teetering on the brink...

personally, i liked him in the boxing movie, "The harder they fall", with rod steiger, where he played a news reporter working for a corrupt boxing promoter.; but i loved treasure of sierra madre

@@davidr5961 Steiger said that a lot of scenes had to be re done as Bogart had tears in his eyes...poor devil was in pain from the cancer that killed him mere months later...

@@philiphalpenny3783 Yes, was a shame we lost him so young

His work in Sabrina and We’re No Angels showed his comedy chops, too.

I thought so! First things I thought of when I watched that episode...

And Mike has this movie on his tv in one episode of better call Saul

Couldn't keep his hands out of the strawberry can!

The funny thing is both Chuck and Queeg were right.

Little Shirly Temple's acting would have stood up fine against today's actors. Simply due to the fact that today's actors don't act. They don''t project any personality or emotion. They just talk. Even in intense or violent scenes they just talk.

@@kurtb8474 You need to watch better movies

`Bogart makes himself look crazy. That's acting.

Amen!

The reaction shots were brilliant. They cut back and forth between Bogarts animated fact to everyone else being totally stone-faced. It almost made me cry.

The shots of the clicking bearing balls, so telling, so brilliant.

Check out Michael McKean's performance in Better Call Saul's "Chicanery" episode. It's basically this.

anyone that smoked as much as he did had to be crazy...

Thank you

@@mikepatrick5909Smoking was promoted as "healthy" back then, even though medical research showed the relationship to cancer and heart disease in the 1930's.

this was his finest role. he disappears into the character

@@richardm3023 Cigarette commercials back in the day actually would say "this brand is recommended by doctors". Can you believe that? My mother remembers the the doctor smoking in the delivery room when I was born in 1955.

Yet he also had the face of one completely confident in his position. We know he is having a paranoid breakdown but he knows he is right, in control, and will surely vindicate himself. Then ship forward to 2:37 when he realizes what everyone else has already seen. The disintegration of his confidence and realization that he has been had is amazingly conveyed. Such a masterwork of acting.

If you've ever seen his movie 'Dark Passage', at one point his face is totally bound by bandages, except for his eyes, and you realise how powerful Bogie's eyes were. Great acting isn't just delivering the lines, but a whole immersion in the character - and this was before Method became fashionable. A true master of his craft.

@@kennethfharkin And yet the men in that room look none of them happy but rather with pity and compassion at the revelation of his vulnerability. Some of the best acting EVER

It is brilliant.👍

Bogart was way too old for Queeq but the studio insisted on casting him instead of Richard Widmark, who had already signed on for the film. However, Bogart was phenomenal in the role. This scene is one of the finest of his career.

Is that right!? Wow!!! I'm telling you, the movies back in the day were the best.

@@douglaslally156 One of the few times the studio got it right then haha

That's interesting because Bogart was one of the first Hollywood stars who took control of his career. He carefullly saved his money. If he thought a project wasn't for him, he'd hand the script back. So everyone was in agreement on this one.

Bogart was a master of the screen. He totally immersed himself in this role and proved he was not a one dimensional actor.

He was the consummate professional and made all those around him better

You nailed it with this post. Bogart and Nicholson, to me, are the most iconic actors of their generations and these scenes show their range and depth.

Even the set design...the outer hallway waiting area, the minimalistic furnishings in the room, the somewhat harsh lighting..this is very typical of what a conference room in the military looks like and I can attest to that from personal experience. Most courtroom dramas get the actual appearance of the courtroom wrong, this one nailed it. Little things like this add to the overall realism of the scene and the movie in general.

Both are great scenes, but there is something so sad and pathetic when you see Queeg have his little epiphany. Bogey really nailed this.

Why would Jack says he's guilty? Good acting but not happening in real life.

@@bachtobebop Did you watch the whole movie? Nicholson was doing a job and being looked down on for it. He was considered a relic and dinosaur yet he is consistently disrespected by the cocktail party crowd. While those high society officers and such pat each other on the back and talk policy he has to get the real job done and he resents it. He has resented it for years that he has had to operate outside the rules established by those he perceives as having no idea what the job is or entails. Cruise's character played on his ego and resentment. He fed him rope until he said EXACTLY what he had always wanted to say. This can and does happen, where a person's resentments and weaknesses are used to goad them into statements.

Beautifully stated Douglas....as a paralegal I find this court room scene pure gold as well as the sensible pre-Judge Advocate work...

Queeq was a true warrior. As an officer seeing combat he paid a mental price for making life or death decisions. Sad, so very sad.

I've sailed with a couple of Captain's like that...Brilliant yet sometimes very bizarre.

@@vincentfisher1603 you're absolutely right! Good chances are he sailed in the 2nd World War where life and death at sea depended on what decision you'd make. I once sailed with a Captain who was a real son of a gun . Very tough , strong on discipline and worked the officer's and crew hard...But everyone said that if we had to go to war he would be the Commanding officer they would want to sail with.

When you are in command of anything, you have no one to support you, psychologically. You are the one giving the support or discipline etc. When crisis hit, it's a test in itself to stay calm and competent while others are falling apart all around you. The character in this scene (Bogart) has reached the point where his "neurosis" gets the best of him, and is revealed in public. He can no longer control the outcome once it's seen. (The brain has a mind of its own, huh?) It's like his true self found its way out of the "ship." Finally. His own Mutiny.........is revealed. It's himself. Lol Beautifully played by a sensational actor and talented man. RIP Mr. Bogart. ❤ Thanks for this video.

Ferrer was perfect!

Everyone was in pain watching him torpedo himself. Even Maryk.

Jose Ferrer as Barney, (Maryk's defence attorney) knew he would crack up during testimony and highlights this knowledge later at the hotel where the "mutineers" are celebrating. This story seems like a doco when viewed, but of course is Herman Wouk's perfect fiction.

@@Warpedsmac Same look EG Marshall had on his face when Orson Welles finished his closing statement in the movie: Compulsion.

Yes his acting was great, but the idea that if the officers had acted differently would have somehow cured him was ridiculous. Merrick never turned on him until he had to save the ship. In a stressful situation Queeg was not able to function.

In the book the Captain is given a dry land paper command. As an enlisted men (or woman now) it is always wise to do your best at your work and say "Yes Sir and No Sir" and steer clear of the officers - at least on the Caine. `The first Captain inadvertently set the tone for a lot of the discontent.

There's more to the scenario. True, the situation might have been better if the Captain had received some support from his officers when he tried to clear the air with them, BUT-- The Captain was in a bad place psychologically. His officers probably wouldn't have been able to carry him forever. Sooner or later he probably would have cracked up anyway. It was a bad situation that would have ended up with the Captain being relieved eventually, one way or another.

@@williamanthony9090 I find good movies, and good stories in general makes the audience ask 'what if?' and how it would affect the conclusion. You're probably right-Queeg would have eventually been relieved. But I like thinking if Keefer wasn't on board, a good leader like Mr. Maryk would have come around to Queeg's veiled pleas for help. With the right support and Queeg learning that yes, he can trust Maryk and probably other officers in his circle he might have been salvageable and turned into a very good captain. Sadly he was simply too tired from one too many U-boat encounters.

Queeg was broken before before he got to the Caine. He was probably never a good officer but he should not have been given another Sea Command. The idea that this wouldn't have happened had not Keefer caused it - is over blown. His officers attitude towards him was one thing but - his fitness for command is another. Whatever Keefer did - Queeg himself created, through his behavior, a lack of confidence in him among his officers. I can't say how he was before - but - on the Caine he would become focused on some trivial detail and lose track of what was important. Becoming obsessed with dressing down an enlisted man for having his shirt un-tucked while the ship was in a turn ... shouldn't have happened. The whole thing with the key ... he became obsessed with the trivial loss of some strawberries and disrupted the ship over them. Then there was the yellow stain. The Caine was supposed to escort these landing craft farther in than it did and ... I guess the strain was to much for him. This could be a result of his prior combat but is in fact inexcusable. Then in the storm - he became obsessed with following what he perceived to be his last order to maintain a course - which was going to get the ship sunk. The XO _had_ to take control of the ship here - otherwise it would have been lost - like several others were. Yes - a Captain is supposed to obey orders from his superiors - but - he is also supposed to exercise his own good judgment .... Queeg didn't have any good judgment left. We never see what he was like before his prior combat experience but ... he seriously never should have been given another sea command. Queeg was very much a casualty of the war. .

Fred MacMurray was great too.

@@docmalthus yes, it was an all-star cast, but Bogey was at his best. There will never be another actor like him. All the other actors were brilliant too, particularly Jose Ferrer and Van Johnson. Robert Francis' career was too short as he died very young. What can be said too about Fred MacMurray? Such a rat in this movie, but was great and usually playing the "good guy" in other productions....think My Three Sons!

@@erinserb check Fred out in Double Indemnity, with Barbara Stannwyck and Edward G Robinson. Another departure from the good guy role.

@@erinserb True as can be. An epic film.

@@mattsantos4799 MacMurray mostly played rotters, total sh**s, in his most famous movies up until the early '60s, when his persona was retooled as the all-American good guy, the widower raising three male offspring in the anodyne sitcom "My Three Sons." If you want to see him as a total slimebag, watch him in 1960's "The Apartment," in which he plays Jeff Sheldrake, director of Personnel (which would now be called "Human Resources") at the (fictional) New York-based Consolidated Life Insurance Co., a selfish, adulterous, lying, treacherous jerk with a sadistic cruel streak who plays everyone around him, driving his extramarital girlfriend Fran (Shirley MacLaine) to a serious suicide attempt before she wises up to him. That film, like "Double Indemnity," was directed by Billy Wilder. MacMurray was magnificent in the role, almost overshadowing the two leads (MacLaine and Jack Lemmon, who were both excellent). The film was released just months before the series debut of "My Three Sons." Soon after, MacMurray appeared in "Flubber" and its sequels and "Follow Me, Boys!" and other saccharine Disney film comedies, all of which solidified MacMurray's new persona as Middle America's nice-guy dad-figure.

It's on my top five GOAT. It must be because I have returned to this YT page many times over three years to comment and read others' discovery of this great film. Cheers from Sunny Australia.

I wouldn't call it a top five favorite of mine but definitely a top twenty. It's always nice to meet another fan of a great movie most people haven't seen.

It's only real flaw is the tacked-on love story which has nothing to do with the plot of the film between two really bad actors we can't begin to care about. Their scenes are detours we just want to get through to get back to the actual story.

My thoughts exactly.

The scene in "Chicanery" BCS was inspired by this.

HE DEFECATED THROUGH A SUNROOF

@@mr.anitabonghit Yeah what was that called again? The Chicago something..

Ronald Bittner.....considering he was such a hard-drinking, heavy smoker - you're probably right.

@@thesoultwins72 Yes, that's true ... my understanding is that he actually cut way down on his drinking in the last 10 years of his life (after marriage to Lauren Bacall), but the smoking continued, plus whatever damage he did to himself during his heavy-drinking days was already accrued ... all adds up to a shorter life and career than it should have been. I think he would have been wonderful at "old man" characters in the 1970s but of course we'll never know.

@@VandelayIndustries61 .....Hmm, sorry - but I beg to differ. Bogart knew he was dying for some time and resigned himself to the fact. He regularly invited friends around to his house or on his beloved yacht ['Santana'] for drinks parties. Yes he may have cut down his intake slightly - but Betty never had the 'influence' to make him stop. [despite their 'happily married couple' image - theirs was a rocky relationship at times due to Bogart's drinking and the vast difference in ages]. In fact, during the filming of the 'African Queen' in 1951 - less than 6 years before Bogart's death - most of the cast and crew came down with dysentery as a result of drinking the local tap water. Bogart's solution was to fill the canteen that he is seen regularly sipping from in the film with neat whiskey! The same with cigarettes and he was a hardened smoker until the day he died. But that was how Bogart was. Totally comfortable in his own skin and a man who knew what he wanted and more often than not - got it. The rare thing about 'Caine Mutiny' is that it was possibly one of the only films he ever made that wasn't Bogart playing Bogart. Yes, it might have been interesting to see what he may have achieved if he had lived longer. But I am just grateful that we have so many wonderful memories of him while he was here.

I watched the "Caine Mutiny Court martial" play at the Dorothy Chandler Pavillion in Los Angeles in the mid 1970's. Hume Cronin was one of the stars. My date was bored silly but I was totally engrossed in that fine drama.

Should be a requirement in acting schools.

I dislike the actor playing Ensign Keith intensely. Do you think his character was intended to be so irritating?

@@brucetucker4847 If the character was supposed to be irritating, then the actor succeeded.

@@brucetucker4847 Willie Keith is a shallow callow sheltered over-privileged kid who gains experience through real-life work and love, and gradually matures, during the course of the novel and film. As Wouk says in a foreword, "The story begins with Willie Keith because the event turned on his personality as the massive door of a vault turns on a small jewel bearing." (I just recently saw the 1959 movie _Operation Petticoat_, where Tony Curtis's character undergoes a similar growth.)

Yes. This is the difference between films of the ilk of Caine Mutiny compared to the formulaic nonsense of today....I think. Today's films cannot stand up to the scrutiny unlike the "....Mutiny" I truly did not intend that rhyme! Cheers from Sunny Australia.

Fred C. Dobbs is his character in ‘Treasure of the Sierra Madre’. The little ‘Mexican’ boy that sells him a winning lottery ticket is a young Robert Blake.

Brother Nkosi......you forgot his portrayal of the eponymous 'Private Eye' - Phillip Marlowe [The Big Sleep] and as Sam Spade [The Maltese Falcon]

@@thesoultwins72 No I did not forget , they are worthy of honorable mention. Sam Spade particularly. However IF i were to admit to leaving anyone out, it would be Rick of Casablanca. Not over dramatic but the cynically world weary, reluctant hero stands the test of time. I still clinch up every time Louie says " Major Strahsa has been shot" and then the pause that seems like an eternity as he says " round up the usual suspects . Have seen it a 100 times and don't mind seeing it 100 more

Don't forget about him as Duke Mantee in The Petrified Forest " ok pal"

Ain’t that the truth! And Linus from ‘Sabrina’. He is my favorite actor of all time!

He was already passed that limit before stepping aboard the Caine.

@@patrickradcliffe3837 When they're so desperate for qualified captains, they send broken men back to sea. War, damn it.

They're not marbles, they're ball bearings.

@@karguy1720 Years later, in a Star Trek episode "The Doomsday Machine", William Windom (Commadore Decker) pays homage to the ball bearings with a couple of computer tapes.

@@WayneKeen Another impressive performance that unfortunately is often derided by critics. I think it stands up to Bogie's.

If you haven't yet, watch The Big Sleep; he's perfect as Philip Marlowe.

Key Largo and Dark Passage.

The Enforcer from the early 50s. Overlooked masterpiece!

They were the best mate.

Loved Cagney in Mr.Roberts.

Exactly. My father had two half brothers, almost 20 years his senior, who served in the navy in WWII. Both came back broken men who could never maintain a stable life until they died around 1980. He would get calls from bars to come pick one or the other up and we would find one of the uncles in the house the next morning. They were never a problem in the house, they simply went out to drink themselves into numbness whenever they were haunted. I didn't understand at the time but my father explained to me me there was little we could do for them but to take care of them as best we could. This was in the 1970s and the idea of PTSD had only started to get exposure while it had been shredding these men to pieces for thirty years.

PTSD has always been known. Just by different names and acronyms

In wwi it was known as “shell shock “. Also a lot of young men had their hair permanently turned white while serving in the trenches.

Only by the people who were going through it.

Such great movies.

didn't the same happen with "Gone With the Wind" and "The Wizard of Oz"?

I'm sure he would have liked an Oscar for this, but he probably consoled himself knowing that he got beaten out by a masterpiece performance in a masterpiece of a movie.

There were a number of plum roles in that movie.

Ironically, the actors playing junior officers were far too old for their parts. Fred MacMurray, for example, was 46. The actors in "A Few Good Men" were age appropriate.

Agreed. Also bought the Blu-Ray. There's a short documentary on the restoration of this film. (I think they also restored The African Queen.) This movie looks beautiful on BD.

ok, boomer

@@joegerbils8291 Well, you know what people like you do with Gerbils.

Cracks me up every time. It's like he's saying, "Oh My God.....this guy IS nuts." 😆

@@Swlabr61 he always had the best facial expressions!

"Capt Queig is nuts. But sane." What a look.

Quint: That's the look of a lawyer who just saw his case get sunk by his star witness.

@@ECO473 Amazing how an actor can convey so much with just a look and zero dialogue. A look of complete shock and 'how did 3 psychiatrists miss this one!?'

He was fantastic in this movie

Maybe they've only seen him play private eye type characters, where the classic Bogart persona came from.

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) and The Barefoot Contessa (1954) were also among the superlatives of his acting abilities!.. 🤩🤗😎😍

blockmasterscott me too! One of my favorites

Wouk wrote a great novel of WWII. His service on Destroyer Minesweepers was still fresh in his mind. I like The Caine Mutiny better than his Winds of War.

Agreed, a great book and equally great movie.

blockmasterscott .....Totally agree. excellent read - although Nicholas Monserrat's 'The Cruel Sea' is my all-time favourite war-time naval story.

You are so right. It's one of the best books I have ever read.

What a deep, articulate voice Ferrer had too (passed it on to his son as well).

Actually, as @T Demo sorta notes, Lt Greenwald is played by José Ferrer, Miguel's father. I liked Miguel as well, in _Twin Peaks_ and _Broken Badges_.

Howard Cherniack Crapola! My bad. 😳😳😳 Jose is great though. You’re right. It’s an amazing performance by two top actors.

Years ago, I came home late from work. This movie was just coming on American movie channel. My mom was leaving the room, but she turned to me and told me that I should watch this movie. Knowing she never made such recommendations lightly, I took her advice. She was correct! Jose Ferrer does an excellent turn here, also.

It's a shame that there is only one "the best" in anything you can name. I think it is a bunch of horseshit, a product of our competitive culture that we need to lose, speaking of winning and losing.

@Will Kelly Then you must know that the novel's main character is Ensign (later Lieutenant) Keith, NOT Queeg ; and Queeg is not mentioned for at least several chapters. At the end, Keith is "the Last Captain of the Caine", and compared to the 3 captains before him, he was the best.

@@bobbyfrancis8957 Willie Keith is the POV character, but I don't think that he can fairly be described as "the novel's main character." As Wouk says in a foreword, "The story begins with Willie Keith because the event turned on his personality as the massive door of a vault turns on a small jewel bearing. "

Aside of Bogart`s there were at least 2 other Oscar worthy performances that year: Brando for On the Waterfront and James Mason for a Star is Born.

The crew's Narcissism prevented that happening. If all the executive crew had been as level headed as Maryk (although Steve Maryk was too easily swayed into believing Keefer's diagnosis eventually) the captain would have had good support and would have reacted far more favourably to suggestions from executive officers. This may have made the bridge more functional during the typhoon.

I heard he had to change his name to Shaddam IV when he entered the Witness Protection Program.

@@bujmoose3992 That's Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV to you!

They were bound by their service to give all professional assistance to the Captain. But, as referred to by lawyer Greenwald, Queeg at one time dropped his 'attitude' and asked them for what was essentially private assistance to help him manage his personal difficulties, which they silently refused. From there on, Queeg lost all trust in his subordinates, believing they were conspiring against him. He was suffering battle fatigue after standing-guard over the US while everyone else was pursuing better paying careers.

I believe they said that this was inspiration for the “chicanery” moment

Nice, good catch👍

Very similar, the tracking shot into Chuck was a nice addition, however the cuts here are also great.