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...rehearsals went on, it was soon clear that members of the cast were gaining inner satisfaction from watching Captain Queeg, the man in position of responsibility and trust, break down under stress. As Psychiatrist Edward R. Miller explains it, this helped many patients to feel that "it could happen to anyone"-so they felt less different themselves. Also, they enjoyed the humbling of a "father-figure," for many had troubles that traced back to their own fathers or other authoritarian figures. Best of all, characters in the play were able to act out their hostility to Father-Figure Queeg without...
...road company of The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, starring loquacious Actor Paul Douglas as loquacious Captain Queeg, wound up its tour of the South seven weeks ahead of schedule. Reason: Mutiny Producer Paul Gregory feared "a big dip" at Dixie box offices because Philadelphia-born Douglas blabbed to a North Carolina reporter (TIME, Feb. 7) that the South "stinks" and is "a land of sowbelly and segregation...
...tour as the villainous Captain Queeg with the road company of The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, Actor Paul Douglas, currently pictured in magazine ads as a genial beer guzzler, hit the town of Greensboro, N.C. and made some ungenial, damyankee noises. Caught either off guard (according to a local reporter) or off record (according to Douglas), the actor waded Queegishly into a question about how he liked Dixie, snapped a curt "It stinks." After the aghast newsman commented that the reply would make interesting reading, Douglas plowed onward: "A land of sowbelly and segregation-it stinks." By the time...
...sympathy from the Somers' Queeg-like skipper. Commander Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, U.S.N., 39, was vain and self-righteous; in 26 years at sea he had developed a fondness for quarterdeck sermons and main-deck floggings. He was aroused by the slightest threat to his position, and he soon hated Midshipman Spencer. As the cruise wore on, Spencer remained moodily aloof from his fellow middies, plied his cronies, Boatswain's Mate Sam Cromwell and Seaman Elisha Small, with illicit brandy and cigars. Soon Spencer was poring over charts of the West Indies, boasting wildly that he would take over...
Bogart as Queeg is never less than everything the book said he was; sometimes he adds a quality of almost noble despair to the captain's sufferings. Van Johnson, who has hardened in recent years into a competent and calculating performer, brings off the square-headed Maryk surprisingly well. Fred MacMurray looks a little too dumb and stiff to be the fast-talking Keefer, but Jose Ferrer, so long as he is not required to do anything more than leer, is suitably aggressive as Barney Greenwald. E. G. Marshall has a fine stretch as the trial judge advocate...