![]() Commander De Vriess acknowledges Willie by allowing him to take the ship out. In the final scene, Willie and May kiss goodbye as Willie boards his new ship (played in the movie by USS Anderson DD-786) and finds Commander De Vriess is the ship's commanding officer. The entire crew shamefully exits the room, leaving Keefer standing alone. To emphasize his point, he tosses his drink in Keefer's face. Barney particularly blames Keefer for setting up the crew to doubt Queeg'a ability to command and then bailing on them in court. He reminds the happy crew how they turned down Queeg after he asked for their help, preferring instead to rag him and to make up songs about him. Barney Greenwald ( José Ferrer) stumbles into the room, drunk because he feels sick about torpedoing Queeg in court. While Keith makes plans on the telephone to marry May ( May Wynn), Lt Tom Keefer ( Fred MacMurray) apologizes to Maryk for not backing him up in court, but Maryk simply replies, "It's over and done with", and walks away. The mutiny of the title is legalistic, not violent, and takes place during Typhoon. Among its themes, it deals with the moral and ethical decisions made at sea by ship captains and other officers. The novel grew out of Wouk's personal experiences aboard two destroyer-minesweepers in the Pacific Theater in World War II. ![]() After the trial ends, the defendants assemble for a celebratory drink to toast Maryk. The Caine Mutiny is a 1952 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Herman Wouk. ![]()
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