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'The Caine Mutiny' By Herman Wouk: 'Strawberries' Trial Scene
Famous 'strawberries' court-martial trial scene, Humphrey Bogart portrays eccentric Navy captain Queeg who is relentlessly cross-examined until he is overcome by stress, under questioning by lawyer Greenwald. (Jose Ferrer).
The Caine Mutiny is a 1954 American film of a fictional Navy drama set in the Pacific in 1944 during World War II. It was directed by Edward Dmytryk and produced by Stanley Kramer, and stars Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer, Van Johnson, and Fred MacMurray. The film is based on the 1951 Pulitzer-Prize winning novel, 'The Caine Mutiny' by Herman Wouk who died yesterday.
The novel grew out of Wouk's personal experiences aboard a destroyer-minesweeper in the Pacific Theater in World War II. Among its themes, it deals with the moral and ethical decisions made at sea by ship captains. The mutiny of the title is legalistic, not violent, and takes place during Typhoon Cobra, in December 1944. The court-martial that results provides the dramatic climax to the plot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Caine_Mutiny_(film)
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