Word: queeg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Caine Mutiny as to suggest a shipboard drama of events through a courtroom drama of character. Charles Laughton has staged the production with a superbly unswerving sense of the whole. Building slowly, the play at length walls in, not the court-martialed Lieut. Maryk, but his accuser, Commander Queeg, skipper of the destroyer-minesweeper U.S.S. Caine...
...savvy stay-at-home will quickly recognize the officers and crew of the destroyer Dreher as combat-fiction standbys, e.g., the captain, no Queeg of the Caine, but a man who wants a taut ship; the iron-man bosun, seagoing equivalent of the hard-boiled sergeant who chews nails and spits tacks; the gabby liar who peddles cheap moonshine about his adventures with women; the aloof, intellectual poetizer...
Herman Wouk's bestselling novel, The Caine Mutiny, seemed at first to be perfect movie material. The story of Lieut. Commander Queeg, U.S.N., a weakling, petty-minded skipper, and his incompetent reign over the destroyer-minesweeper Caine had romance, action, villainy, and as miserable a crew of sailors as ever took over a ship (TIME, April 9). The U.S. Navy, without whose "cooperation" the picture cannot be successfully filmed, let loose a broadside at the whole movie project. To Producer Stanley (Champion) Kramer, Information Chief Rear Admiral Robert Hickey wrote: "I believe your production would plant in the minds...
...Caine Mutiny, the Navy suggests that he l) drop the word "Mutiny" from the title, 2) clean up the Caine so it will seem to be a better ship, 3) raise the I.Q. of the enlisted men, and clean them up a little too, 4) go easy on Queeg's cowardice, 5) perk up the Caine wardroom so the officers will appear to be "ordinary, well-trained, neat, efficient people rather than a scurvy lot of misfits," 6) tone down one character's references to the "morons' who run the Navy, 7) present one episode, in which...
Prodded from astern by the Reserve Officers' Association, Hickey also disclaimed all credit for the suggestion that Annapolisman Queeg be made a reserve officer instead of a regular. "Our reserves,' he assured one & all, "are the backbone of the Navy...