Famed director Robert Altman brought to the television screen the 1988 TV-movie The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, starring Eric Bogosian as Greenwald (the Jose Ferrer part), Jeff Daniels as Maryk (the Van Johnson part), Brad Davis as Queeg (the Bogart part), Peter Gallagher as Lt. John Challee (the E.G. Marshall part), and Michael Murphy as Captain Blakely (the Warner Anderson part).

Humphrey Bogart's performance as Captain Queeg was a departure for the actor who rarely played neurotic, emotionally unstable men. Two unusual exceptions were his acclaimed roles as the paranoid Fred. C. Dobbs in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) and the insanely jealous playwright, Dixon Steele, in In a Lonely Place (1950).

The long-running animated satire The Simpsons took a swipe at The Caine Mutiny with the 1997 episode "The Canine Mutiny."

Coach potatoes alert: look for Claude Akins as Horrible, the sailor who gets reprimanded by Humphrey Bogart for slovenly attire. Akins was the title character on television's Sheriff Lobo (1979-81). Also keep an eye out for James Best as Lt. Jorgensen. Best was the comical sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane on the long-running television series The Dukes of Hazzard (1979-85).

Michael Caine claimed during his hosting gig of the 1972 Academy Award ceremony that "if it hadn't been for an American film called The Caine Mutiny, the bloke standing before you would still be called Maurice Micklewhite."

by Scott McGee