Throughout, Bogart's sensitive freak was perfectly pitiful, and MacMurray's scumbag turn at the end was magnificently slimy. The trial was brilliant and the epic feel of the sea was amplified wonderfully by the conflict aboard the Caine. Great script, amazing cast, fantastic movie. Anyway I'm out of synonyms... that storm was tense!

a decent adaptation of the best of wouk's works, that is paced in a manner badly fitting the book. the only time i've loved van johnson, and i think bogey should have got the oscar for this one. if it were paced right, and more true to the book it could have been great. as it is you're better off reading the book. oh, and those baoding balls were quite annoying.

Rather leadenly directed, but with fine performances by Bogart, Ferrer, MacMurry and Johnson.

Some nice shots of ships at sea, and some moments of great acting. However there is also a heck of a lot of overacting (particularly by Bogart at the end), and the love story is stupid and should have been scrapped completely.

Damn fine work. While it does spend too much time cheering on the boys and on the pointless love story, it at least serves the purpose of easing us into Bogart's increasingly dominating performance. Once things gets rolling this as fine as any film gets with a superb climax.

An all-star cast effectively brings this tale to the screen. Bogart is a standout.

"It's like the well-constructed house that's not meant to be distinctive, but was made to endure." - Jeremiah Kipp

Queeg's a mess, sure, but the snarky novelist Keefer (Fred MacMurray) is the arrogant coward who gets it in the end. Thus it's the second-best anti-creative-writing movie I've ever seen, after Storytelling. Decent war flick too: brilliant late Bogey performance and all.

Bogart was the picture of instability

The court martial sequence was pretty good, but everything leading up to it is either dated as hell (like the vomit inducing love story - "I hope you have a good cry, I know I will!") or just boring. Fred MacMurray is pretty great, but even Bogey isn't terribly remarkable until the last 45 minutes of the movie. I don't like the sudden end to the trial sequence either. Implying instead of actually depicting the outcome seemed pretty lame. The lawyer's little rant at the end was nice, though.

Great film.

Fine story of a mutiny occurring in the US Navy (which has never happened IRL, BTW), with inspired casting of screen tough guy Bogart; this is what might happen to a tough guy when he starts getting old and has just been beaten by life too much for too long

Watched it by chance the day Van Johnson died (12/12/08). He, Bogart and MacMurray were all fantastic.

Should be much better than it is, but bogged down by stupid love story. Bogart's breakdown at the end is the highlight and a showing of just how brilliant he was.