Drama by Herman Wouk. In Mutiny on the Bounty, a harsh -albeit skilled and highly competent- captain is victim of a crew uprising led by the Master's Mate (Fletcher Christian). The Caine Mutiny is a classic on leadership either in book or movie form. The Navy was concerned that the film's subject dealt with a mutiny, and that audience would feel that it was a true story. However, no one could talk about that sort of thing in those days, an American ship that almost suffered a mutiny. Queeg is a modern Captain Bligh without his abilities, his seamanship, his ideals. In The Caine Mutiny, an incompetent captain was relieved by his second-in-command, through an obscure passage in the regulation, for the purpose of ensuring the ship's safety. Reliving the Caine mutiny with a somewhat different Captain Queeg May 6, 1988 By Alan Bunce; The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial CBS, Sunday, 9-11 p.m. This is an extremely interesting question because the “Caine Mutiny” was based partially on a real event. He says it was the Queegs of the regular Navy who saved his Jewish grandmother. It was adapted for a Broadway stage play (by producer Charles Laughton) with Lloyd Nolan as Captain Queeg and Henry Fonda as Lt. Keefer, and later became a Robert Altman-directed TV movie The Caine Mutiny Court Martial in 1988, with Eric Bogosian (as Greenwald), Jeff Daniels (as Maryk), Brad Davis (as Queeg), Peter Gallagher, Michael Murphy, and Kevin J. O'Connor. Greenwald ends the toast by throwing his champagne in Keefer's face, exposing him as the true source of blame for the mutiny. The ultimate goal was for the crew to escape to an idyllic life in Tahiti. Queeg influenced the 25th Amendment’s drafters, making it harder to sideline a president The Caine is an almost derelict minesweeper, and as the story develops, you know her full complement of officers and men, with Ensign (later Lieutenant) Willie Keith a central figure. Here is World War II's Mutiny on the Bounty. While none of these incidents could be described as mutiny they were certainly acts which undermined the chain of command, endangered the mission and had they occurred in a combat zone or in emergent conditions could have gotten soldiers or sailors killed. How ‘The Caine Mutiny’ and the paranoid Capt. But the filmmakers reached a compromise upon agreeing to include the comment in the opening titles that there has never been a mutiny on a US Navy vessel. All of the accused are free to continue their military careers.