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...Another veteran cinemactor, 50-year-old Lloyd Nolan, will have a share of that immortality. As the Queeg of Author Wouk's incisive The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, now playing S.R.O. on Broadway, Nolan gives a comparably brilliant performance, last week was voted "best actor" of the 1953-54 season in Variety's annual poll of Manhattan drama critics...
Lord Cardigan "was transported with fury. It was his impression that Nolan had been trying to take command of the Brigade," and throughout the remainder of the charge, Lord Cardigan thought about nothing but the punishment that he would order for this bumptious officer...
Lord Cardigan had trotted a mere 50 yards when the Russian batteries opened fire. Simultaneously. Captain Nolan, the aide who had brought the fatal order, galloped frantically across the van of the advancing brigade, waving his sword. "Had he suddenly realized that his interpretation of the order had been wrong?" No one will ever know, for at that moment a Russian shell fragment tore open Captain Nolan's heart...
...London at dinners and balls-and . . . detached a troop of Cossacks . . . to capture him alive." Lord Cardigan was in no mood to be mauled by private soldiers. Wheeling his horse, he galloped back the way he had come. Back at base, he "immediately broke into accusations of ... Nolan's insubordination...
...more, my lord," he was told. "You have just ridden over Captain Nolan's dead body...