I find the Caine Mutiny rather corny (supposedly that is where Michael Caine took his stage name from).
For one thing, that young officer is so dumb--it's annoying how dumb he is and the hokey romance sub-plot.
It's interesting politically for the time because it has the demoralizing view of military command--that Bogart's character has PTSD (though does it take place in WW2 or before?) and Fred MacMurrey is a kind of the privileged intelligentsia archetype--the opposite of the 60s counterculture version--he represents American blueblood and yet he's the trouble maker. And the lawyer is the voice of morality and sense for all of them.
For one thing, that young officer is so dumb--it's annoying how dumb he is and the hokey romance sub-plot.
It's interesting politically for the time because it has the demoralizing view of military command--that Bogart's character has PTSD (though does it take place in WW2 or before?) and Fred MacMurrey is a kind of the privileged intelligentsia archetype--the opposite of the 60s counterculture version--he represents American blueblood and yet he's the trouble maker. And the lawyer is the voice of morality and sense for all of them.