{"id":48679,"date":"2014-12-07T17:35:13","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T00:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/07\/movie-review-the-caine-mutiny-1954.html"},"modified":"2014-12-15T14:40:24","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T21:40:24","slug":"movie-review-the-caine-mutiny-1954","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/07\/movie-review-the-caine-mutiny-1954.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: &quot;The Caine Mutiny&quot; (1954)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, Captain Queeg and his ball bearings. Triffic stuff, if you ignore the utterly awful &quot;romance interest&quot; tale that frames it. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/the-caine-mutiny\/\">http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/the-caine-mutiny\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/the-caine-mutiny'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/ccaoEsqFNMTiFJr30kNe3JpHVZ-REcO5HEHZP8v8Xls3karVx7qS2Hl4u0iuQYarmLCGsaZ_LgxCMdp8mCiik4IaT-7-sg8LCTNfdieB-NG-OnSG8FDyinLSXeTEGPN1hlNAGrvNQaaPVeNIC276MH2DckfYso1EJVMf7do9ksk=w120-h120' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/the-caine-mutiny'>A &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733; review of The Caine Mutiny (1954)<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nGreat actors, multiple Oscar nominations, taut drama, courtroom brilliance &#8212; and a bizarrely superfluous romantic subplot involving the least engaging and most wooden member of the cast. The latter detracts mightily from all the former, but it&#8217;s still a good movie for all that, with the classic Bogart Captain Queeg routine, complete with rolling ball bearings. Worth a watch.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/hpCiHZSSDnv'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, Captain Queeg and his ball bearings. Triffic stuff, if you ignore the utterly awful &quot;romance interest&quot; tale that frames it. http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/the-caine-mutiny\/ A &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733; review of The Caine Mutiny (1954) Great actors, multiple Oscar nominations, taut drama, courtroom brilliance &#8212; and a bizarrely superfluous romantic subplot involving the least engaging and most wooden member of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/07\/movie-review-the-caine-mutiny-1954.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Movie Review: &quot;The Caine Mutiny&quot; (1954)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":134722,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/17\/movie-review-1954.html","url_meta":{"origin":48679,"position":0},"title":"Movie Review: &#8220;Them!&#8221; (1954)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 17-Sep-17 10:22am","format":false,"excerpt":"It's hard to believe that I've never reviewed Them! before, given my deep long-time love for this ur-Giant Atomic Mutations flick. 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