97-404: (Redirected from The Caine Mutiny Court Martial ) The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial may refer to: The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (play) , a play by Herman Wouk, adapted from his novel The Caine Mutiny The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (1955 film) , a TV play based on the play The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (2023 film) , an American film based on
194-489: A Formula 1 racing star in Grand Prix (1966); Raymond Chandler 's Marlowe (1969) with Bruce Lee ; Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969) with Walter Brennan ; Blake Edwards 's Victor/Victoria (1982) with Julie Andrews; and Murphy's Romance (1985) with Sally Field , for which he received an Academy Award nomination. He also starred in several television series, including popular roles such as Bret Maverick in
291-401: A neo-noir featuring an early extended kung fu scene with the martial artist and actor Bruce Lee . The same year, Garner scored a hit with the comedy Western Support Your Local Sheriff! with Walter Brennan and Jack Elam . In 1971, Garner returned to television in an offbeat series, Nichols , in which his character was killed and replaced by a less colorful twin brother at the end of
388-465: A true story . The film was released in the same month as The Thrill of It All , giving Garner two hit films at the box office at the same time. The Americanization of Emily , a literate antiwar D-Day comedy, featured a screenplay written by Paddy Chayefsky and remained Garner's favorite of all his work. In 1963, exhibitors voted him the 16th most popular star in the US and it was hoped that he might be
485-606: A 1963 remake of 1940's My Favorite Wife in which Garner portrayed the role originally played by Cary Grant . (The remake had begun as Something's Got to Give , but was recast and retitled after Marilyn Monroe died and Dean Martin chose to withdraw as a result.) Next came the war dramas The Great Escape (1963) with Steve McQueen , Paddy Chayefsky 's The Americanization of Emily (1964) with Julie Andrews , and Roald Dahl 's 36 Hours (1965) with Eva Marie Saint (all three pictures are set in World War II and both
582-452: A Garner look-alike , to play a third Maverick brother named Brent Maverick . Colbert only appeared in two episodes toward the end of the season. That left the rest of the series' run to Kelly, alternating with reruns of episodes with Garner during the fifth season. Garner still received billing during the opening series credits for these newly produced Kelly episodes, aired in the 1961–1962 season, although he did not appear in them and had left
679-608: A bar of soap." He points out to Maryk, "Steve, this dinner's a phony. You're guilty. 'Course you're only half guilty. There's another guy who's stayed very neatly out of the picture." Greenwald feels sorry for Queeg, because he sees that Queeg was not wrong about being surrounded by disloyal officers. Greenwald believes that Tom Keefer is the guiltiest party in the whole affair. Maryk, after all, really knew very little about psychology or psychiatry, so where would he have obtained any of his half-formed ideas about paranoia and mental illness, if not from Keefer? Greenwald had defended Maryk to
776-552: A dozen of his movies, introduced by Robert Osborne , who said that Fonda's gentle, sincere persona rubbed off on Garner, greatly to Garner's benefit. Garner subsequently moved to television commercials and eventually to television roles. In 1955, Garner was considered for the lead role in the Western series Cheyenne , which went to Clint Walker because the casting director could not reach Garner in time (according to Garner's autobiography). Garner wound up playing an Army officer in
873-537: A fake Southern accent. In 1995, he played lead character Woodrow Call, an ex-lawman, in the TV miniseries sequel to Lonesome Dove entitled Streets of Laredo , based on Larry McMurtry 's novel. In 1996, Garner and Jack Lemmon teamed up in My Fellow Americans , playing two former presidents who uncover scandalous activity by their successor ( Dan Aykroyd ) and are pursued by murderous NSA agents. In addition to
970-486: A few moments at the beginning of the first show, was canceled so rapidly that some of the episodes filmed were never broadcast in the United States. Despite the title, Frank was three years older than Garner had been at the launch of the original series. After the abrupt disappearance of Young Maverick two seasons earlier, an attempt to make a "Maverick" series without Garner, he returned to his earlier TV role in 1981 in
1067-406: A fistfight in an episode titled " Duel at Sundown ", in which Eastwood played a vicious and cowardly gunslinger. Although Garner quit the series after the third season because of a dispute with Warner Bros., he did make one fourth-season Maverick appearance, in an episode titled " The Maverick Line " starring both Garner and Jack Kelly that had been filmed in the third season but held back to run as
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#17331161146891164-555: A foxhole. Garner would later joke that "there was a lot of room involving my rear end. How could they miss?" Garner received the Purple Heart in Korea for his initial wounding. He also qualified for a second Purple Heart (for which he was eligible, since he was hit by friendly fire which "was released with the full intent of inflicting damage or destroying enemy troops or equipment"), but did not actually receive it until 1983, 32 years after
1261-401: A group of Native Americans . In 1957, he had a supporting role in the TV anthology series episode on Conflict entitled " Man from 1997 ," portraying Maureen's brother "Red"; the show stars Jacques Sernas as Johnny Vlakos, Gloria Talbott as Maureen, and Charlie Ruggles as elderly Mr. Boyne, a time-travelling librarian from 1997, and involved a 1997 Almanac that was mistakenly left in
1358-506: A major recurring role during the last part of the run of TV series Chicago Hope , Garner also starred in two short-lived series, the animated God, the Devil and Bob and First Monday , in which he played a fictional version of the Supreme Court's Chief Justice of the United States . In 2000, after an operation to replace both knees, Garner appeared with Clint Eastwood , who had played
1455-512: A manufacturer of instant film and cameras. They portrayed a bantering, bickering couple so convincingly that some viewers believed that the two were married. After six seasons, The Rockford Files was cancelled in 1980. The physical toll on Garner resulted in his doctor ordering him to take some time off to rest. Appearing in nearly every scene of the series, doing many of his own stunts—including one that injured his back—was wearing him out. A knee injury from his National Guard days worsened in
1552-497: A measure of comic relief, as he is poorly educated, extremely nervous, and confused about exactly what happened. His testimony tells the jury very little, but on cross-examination he lets slip that Queeg was "a nut" on numerous small matters of discipline and tidiness. Captain Randolph Southard, an experienced naval officer called as an expert on destroyer ship-handling, testifies that, under the weather circumstances described on
1649-492: A mentally ill adult sibling; and My Name Is Bill W. with James Woods, in which Garner portrays the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous . In 1984, he played the lead in Joseph Wambaugh 's The Glitter Dome for HBO Pictures , which was directed by his Rockford Files co-star Stuart Margolin . The film generated a mild controversy for a bondage sequence featuring Garner and co-star Margot Kidder . In 1984 he also starred in
1746-484: A novel about the war, titled Multitudes, Multitudes, and even though it is still not finished, he has received an advance of one thousand dollars from a publisher.) Greenwald looks dejected and far from triumphant, but he reluctantly agrees to attend the party. At the party, Keefer, Keith, Maryk and their friends are celebrating both Maryk's acquittal and the large advance that Keefer has received on Multitudes, Multitudes, when Greenwald walks in, heavily intoxicated from
1843-542: A number of drinks he and Challee had shared before he showed up to the party, over which they had discussed details Greenwald had left out of the case at the end of the trial. (The two men had been law-school classmates, and good friends, before both had enlisted. Challee had accused Greenwald, during the trial, of "shyster tactics," and Greenwald had invited Challee for drinks after the trial to smooth things over and to provide such details. These had resulted in Challee understanding
1940-468: A petty, vindictive, isolated, and paranoid commanding officer Queeg was. In particular, Maryk dwells on "The Strawberry Incident," which convinced much of the crew that Queeg was insane. Shortly after the Caine had received a shipment of strawberries from another ship, a large portion went missing. Because the circumstances were superficially similar to another incident that had occurred during peacetime when Queeg
2037-406: A school administrator. His family was Methodist. "The family ran a general store at Denver Corner on the east side of Norman." After their mother's death, Garner and his brothers were sent to live with relatives. Garner attended Wilson Elementary School, Norman Junior High and Norman High School ( Norman Public Schools ). Garner was reunited with his family in 1934 when his father remarried,
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#17331161146892134-515: A star rating for each. Garner's three-time co-star Julie Andrews wrote the book's foreword. Lauren Bacall , Diahann Carroll , Doris Day , Tom Selleck , Stephen J. Cannell , and many other Garner associates, friends, and relatives provided their memories of the star in the book's coda. The "most explosive revelation" in his autobiography was that Garner smoked marijuana for much of his adult life. "I started smoking it in my late teens," Garner wrote. I drank to get drunk but ultimately didn't like
2231-608: A starring actor, staying to do off-camera lines with other actors, doing his own stunts despite his knee problems. When Garner later made The Rockford Files television movies, he said that 22 people (with the exception of series co-star Beery, who died late in 1994) came out of retirement to participate. In July 1983, Garner filed suit against Universal Studios for US$ 16.5 million in connection with his ongoing dispute from The Rockford Files. The suit charged Universal with "breach of contract; failure to deal in good faith and fairly; and fraud and deceit". Garner alleged that Universal
2328-573: A starring role in The Children's Hour (1961) with Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine , a drama about two teachers surviving scandal started by a student. After that, the graylist was broken and Garner abruptly became one of the busiest leading men in cinema. In Boys' Night Out (1962) with Kim Novak and Tony Randall and The Thrill of It All (1963) with Doris Day , he returned to comedy. Garner also starred opposite Day in Move Over, Darling ,
2425-618: A successor to Clark Gable . He also made Mister Buddwing (1966), a picture depicting a man suddenly suffering from amnesia while sitting on a bench in Central Park . By October 1964, Garner had formed his own independent film production company, Cherokee Productions. He next starred in the Cherokee co-production, Norman Jewison 's romantic comedy The Art of Love (1965) with Dick Van Dyke and Elke Sommer . The Westerns Duel at Diablo (1966) with Sidney Poitier and Hour of
2522-510: A villain in the original Maverick series in the episode " Duel at Sundown ," as astronauts in the movie Space Cowboys , also featuring Tommy Lee Jones and Donald Sutherland . In 2001, Garner voiced Commander Rourke in Atlantis: The Lost Empire . In 2002, following the death of James Coburn , Garner took over Coburn's role as TV commercial voiceover for Chevrolet's "Like a Rock" advertising campaign. Garner continued to voice
2619-485: Is a fisherman's son, and has been around boats his whole life. However, Maryk confesses that he was only an average student in high school and a poor student in college. It becomes clear in Challee's cross-examination that, while Maryk uses words like "paranoid," he really knows little about psychology, and was not truly qualified to judge anyone's mental health. At this point, Greenwald calls Queeg as his second and final defense witness. Under intense cross-examination, Queeg
2716-412: Is a much less helpful witness from the defense standpoint. Keefer, an intellectual who was a writer in civilian life, having published some of his short stories in national magazines, indicates that Queeg was not insane, and that Maryk was ill-advised to relieve him of command. Maryk is stunned by Keefer's betrayal, since to a large extent, Keefer was the one who convinced Maryk that Queeg might be insane in
2813-415: Is asked to justify each and every one of his questionable actions as commanding officer of Caine. He becomes nervous and testy, and starts playing with a pair of steel balls that he uses to control his nerves. He tells a few small lies to cover up petty offenses. When his lies are revealed, his demeanor changes, and he becomes angry and combative. When asked about Maryk's charge that Queeg had wanted to alter
2910-464: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (play) The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial is a two-act play , of the courtroom drama type, that was dramatized for the stage by Herman Wouk , who adapted it from his own 1951 novel , The Caine Mutiny . Wouk's novel covered a long stretch of time aboard United States Navy destroyer minesweeper USS Caine in
3007-432: Is far from being an ideal officer, in that he can be arrogant, overly defensive, nervous, and a bit of a bully, he is not mentally ill. Under cross-examination from Greenwald, however, each of them, Dr. Lundeen in particular, acknowledges that some of Queeg's traits do come close to the textbook definition of paranoia . Willis Keith, a friend of Maryk's, testifies as to the events leading to the mutiny. Keith says that Queeg
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3104-448: Is guilty. Even if Queeg was far from an ideal officer, Greenwald believes, Maryk's first duty was to carry on fighting the war, and doing his best to keep Caine in action. All authority figures tend to look like irrational tyrants to their subordinates, Greenwald says, whether they are or not. As Greenwald begins his defense the following morning, he calls Steve Maryk as the first of his two witnesses. Maryk explains in great detail what
3201-615: The ABC 1950s Western series Maverick and as Jim Rockford in the NBC 1970s private detective show, The Rockford Files . Garner's career and popularity continued into the 21st century with films such as Space Cowboys (2000) with Clint Eastwood ; the animated film Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) (voice work) with Michael J. Fox and Cree Summer ; The Notebook (2004) with Gena Rowlands and Ryan Gosling ; and in his TV sitcom role as Jim Egan in 8 Simple Rules (2003–2005). Garner
3298-474: The Pacific . It begins with Willis Keith's assignment to Caine , chronicles the mismanagement of the ship under Philip Francis Queeg , explains how Steve Maryk relieved Queeg of command, gives an account of Maryk's court-martial , and describes the aftermath of the mutiny for all involved. The play covers only the court-martial itself. Like jurors at a trial, the audience knows only what various witnesses tell of
3395-687: The Twelfth Naval District , San Francisco and in the banquet room of the Fairmont Hotel , San Francisco in February, 1945. Lieutenant Stephen Maryk of the United States Naval Reserve is on trial for mutiny, because he relieved Lt. Commander Philip Francis Queeg of duty as captain of USS Caine during a typhoon on December 18, 1944 . Maryk insists that Queeg had gone over the edge mentally, and that his paranoid delusions were putting
3492-581: The 1955 Cheyenne pilot titled "Mountain Fortress". His first film appearances were in The Girl He Left Behind and Toward the Unknown in 1956. Also in 1956, Garner appeared with Ralph Bellamy and Gloria Talbott in a half-hour television episode of Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre titled "Star Over Texas" in which a rivalry exists between Bellamy and Garner over Talbott until they're attacked by
3589-603: The 1970s, Roy Huggins had an idea to remake Maverick , but this time as a modern-day private detective . Huggins worked with co-creator Stephen J. Cannell to rekindle the success of Maverick , eventually recycling many of the plots from the original series in The Rockford Files , according to both Huggins' and Cannell's Archive of American Television interviews. Starting with the 1974 season, Garner appeared as private investigator Jim Rockford for six seasons, for which he received an Emmy Award for Best Actor in 1977. In
3686-412: The 2016 book titled TV (The Book) , film and television critic Matt Zoller Seitz stated that the series gave Garner "the role he was put on earth to play". Veteran character actor Noah Beery Jr. played Rockford's father "Rocky". Between 1978 and 1985, Garner co-starred with Mariette Hartley , who had made an Emmy -nominated appearance on The Rockford Files , in 250 TV commercials for Polaroid ,
3783-469: The Archives of American Television, he said he hated modeling. He soon quit and returned to Norman. There he played football and basketball at Norman High School and competed on the track and golf teams. However, he dropped out in his senior year. In a 1976 Good Housekeeping magazine interview, he admitted, "I was a terrible student and I never actually graduated from high school, but I got my diploma in
3880-664: The Army." Garner enlisted in the California Army National Guard , serving his first 7 months in California . He was deployed to Korea during the Korean War , and spent 14 months as a rifleman in the 5th Regimental Combat Team , then part of the 24th Infantry Division. He was wounded twice: in the face and hand by fragmentation from a mortar round, and in the buttocks by friendly fire from U.S. fighter jets as he dove into
3977-491: The Gun (1967) with Garner as Wyatt Earp and Jason Robards Jr. as Doc Holliday followed, as well as the comedy A Man Could Get Killed (1966) with Melina Mercouri and Tony Franciosa . Grand Prix (1966) with Eva Marie Saint and Yves Montand , directed by John Frankenheimer and co-produced through Garner's Cherokee Productions, left Garner with a fascination for car racing that he often explored by actually racing during
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4074-470: The Gun in 1967 and Blake Edwards ' Sunset in 1988. The first film was a realistic depiction of the O.K. Corral shootout and its aftermath, while the second centered around a comedic fictional adventure shared by Earp and silent movie cowboy star Tom Mix . Earp had actually worked as a consultant for Western films during the silent film era toward the end of his life. The movie features Bruce Willis as Mix in only his second movie role. Although Willis
4171-436: The accused mutineer's defense attorney, and John Hodiak as the accused, Steve Maryk; Lloyd Nolan played Queeg. Herbert Anderson played Dr. Bird (he would later go on to play Ensign Rabbit in the 1954 film version of the novel). James Garner appeared in a non speaking role as a court martial panelist . It ran for 415 performances. In 1955, actor Paul Douglas was placed on probation by Actors Equity while appearing in
4268-454: The best of his abilities, which had led him to destroy Queeg on the witness stand, because he had seen that Maryk was essentially a decent man trying to do the right thing. He views Keefer, on the other hand, as an upper-class intellectual snob who had regarded himself as superior to Queeg, the career military man, and had helped turn Maryk and the rest of the crew against him. Greenwald suggests that Maryk could even have reasoned with Queeg during
4365-454: The case in episodes of the original series, Bret's brother Bart shows up only briefly toward the end. The New Maverick served as the pilot for a failed television series, Young Maverick , featuring the adventures of Bret and Bart's younger cousin Ben Maverick, portrayed in both The New Maverick and Young Maverick by Charles Frank . The series itself, which presented Garner for only
4462-550: The commercials until the end of the campaign. Also in 2002, he played Sandra Bullock 's father in Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood as Shepard James "Shep" Walker. After the death of John Ritter in 2003, Garner joined the cast of 8 Simple Rules as Grandpa Jim Egan (Cate's father) and remained with the series until it finished in 2005. In 2004, Garner starred as the older version of Ryan Gosling 's character in
4559-407: The court-martial, Queeg seems like a typical tough military disciplinarian—perhaps a bit too tough, but giving no good reason to believe he has psychological problems. He is confident and articulate, and seems to be in full possession of his faculties. A young signalman, Junius Urban, who was present on the bridge at the time Maryk took control, is called to testify about what happened. Urban provides
4656-404: The court-martial, was guilty. But he is determined to offer a strong defense nonetheless. Philip Francis Queeg is the first witness for the prosecution, being conducted by Lt. Commander John Challee. Queeg states that, while Caine was going through a typhoon, Steve Maryk, a disloyal and disgruntled officer, rebelled against him and relieved him of command without justification. At this stage of
4753-498: The effect. Not so with grass. It had the opposite effect from alcohol: it made me more tolerant and forgiving. I did a little bit of cocaine in the Eighties, courtesy of John Belushi, but fortunately I didn't like it. But I smoked marijuana for 50 years and I don't know where I'd be without it. It opened my mind and now it eases my arthritis. After decades of research I've concluded that marijuana should be legal and alcohol illegal. Garner
4850-477: The end of World War II . He liked the work and his shipmates, but he had chronic seasickness and only lasted a year. After World War II, Garner joined his father in Los Angeles and was enrolled at Hollywood High School , where he was voted the most popular student. A high school gym teacher recommended him for a job modeling Jantzen bathing suits. It paid well ( $ 25 an hour) but, in his first interview for
4947-459: The ensuing years. The expensive Cinerama epic by MGM did not fare as well as expected at the box office and, together with the poor performance of his last six films, he was blamed for the movie not doing better, which damaged Garner's theatrical film career. In 1969, despite opposition from some at MGM and having to plead his case, Garner played Raymond Chandler 's Philip Marlowe in Marlowe ,
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#17331161146895044-856: The episode. Also in 1969 he starred in Support Your Local Gunfighter! (similar to the Western spoof Support Your Local Sheriff! ), while in the frontier comedy Skin Game , Garner and Louis Gossett Jr. starred as con men pretending to be a slaveowner and his slave during the pre- Civil War era. The following year, Garner played a small town sheriff investigating a murder in They Only Kill Their Masters with Katharine Ross . He appeared in two Disney films also starring Vera Miles as his leading lady , One Little Indian (1973), featuring Jodie Foster in an early minor role, and The Castaway Cowboy (1974) with Robert Culp . In
5141-612: The event. This was apparently the result of an error which was not rectified until Garner appeared on Good Morning America in November 1982, with presenter David Hartman making inquiries "after he learned of the case on his television show". At the ceremony where he received his second Purple Heart, Garner understated: "After 32 years, it's better to receive this now than posthumously". Reflecting on his military service, Garner recalled: "Do I have fond memories? I guess if you get together with some buddies it’s fond. But it really wasn’t. It
5238-545: The events aboard Caine . The play was first presented by Paul Gregory in the Granada Theatre , Santa Barbara, California , on October 13, 1953, and then went on tour across the United States before being given its first performance on Broadway at the Plymouth Theatre on January 20, 1954 in a production directed by Charles Laughton and produced by Paul Gregory. The play starred Henry Fonda as Barney Greenwald,
5335-677: The film version of Nicholas Sparks 's The Notebook alongside Gena Rowlands as his wife, directed by Nick Cassavetes , Rowlands's son. The Screen Actors Guild nominated Garner as best actor for "Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role". In 2006, Garner made his last personal appearance in the film The Ultimate Gift as billionaire Howard "Red" Stevens. In 2010, Garner voiced Shazam in Superman/Shazam!: The Return of Black Adam . On November 1, 2011, Simon & Schuster published Garner's autobiography The Garner Files: A Memoir . In addition to recounting his career,
5432-422: The first of several times. He had a volatile relationship with one of his stepmothers, Wilma, who beat all three boys. He said that his stepmother also punished him by forcing him to wear a dress in public. When he was 14 years old, he fought with her, knocking her down and choking her to keep her from retaliating against him physically. She left the family and never returned. His brother Jack later commented, "She
5529-433: The first place, and Maryk wants Greenwald to cross-examine him vigorously. Instead, Greenwald has no questions for Keefer, explaining to Maryk, "Implicating Keefer harms you." He wants one hero, not two mutineers. As the trial adjourns for the day, Maryk expresses dissatisfaction with Greenwald's defense. Greenwald explains that he has good reasons for not asking Keefer any questions, and states once again that he thinks Maryk
5626-401: The first seven episodes but production demands forced the studio, Warner Bros. , to create a Maverick brother, Bart Maverick , played by Jack Kelly . This allowed two production units to film different story lines and episodes simultaneously, necessary because each episode took an extra day to complete, meaning that eventually the studio would run out of finished episodes to air partway through
5723-474: The interim. According to Garner's memoir The Garner Files , he insisted upon being fully paid in cash before the shooting began on each of the Rockford TV-movies. In 1994, Garner played Marshal Zane Cooper in a movie version of Maverick , with Mel Gibson as Bret Maverick (in the end it is revealed that Garner's character is the father of Gibson's Maverick) and Jodie Foster as a gambling lass with
5820-432: The latter two films involve D-Day ). In the smash hit The Great Escape , Garner played the second lead for the only time during the decade, supporting fellow ex-TV series cowboy McQueen among a cast of British and American screen veterans including Richard Attenborough , Donald Pleasence , David McCallum , James Coburn , and Charles Bronson in a story depicting a mass escape from a German prisoner of war camp based on
5917-479: The memoir, co-written with nonfiction writer Jon Winokur, detailed the childhood abuses Garner suffered at the hands of his stepmother. It also offered frank, unflattering assessments of some of Garner's co-stars such as Steve McQueen and Charles Bronson . In addition to recalling the genesis of most of Garner's hit films and television shows, the book also featured a section where the star provided individual critiques for every one of his acting projects accompanied by
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#17331161146896014-486: The movie Tank , about a soon-to-be retiring US Army Command Sergeant Major named Zack Carey who butted heads with a corrupt local sheriff after an incident with one of his deputies off base and used a privately owned Sherman tank to exact justice. Garner's only Oscar nomination was for Best Actor in a Leading Role for the film Murphy's Romance (1985), opposite Sally Field . Field and director Martin Ritt had to fight
6111-547: The night of the mutiny, Queeg took all the proper measures, and did exactly what a commanding officer should have done. Thus, in Southard's view, Maryk's actions were completely unjustified. However, under cross examination from Greenwald, Southard concedes that there are rare, extreme circumstances under which sailing directly into the storm would be the only way to avoid sinking. Two psychiatrists who have examined Queeg, Dr. Forrest Lundeen and Dr. Allen Bird, testify that, while Queeg
6208-513: The ones putting their lives on the line to defend America – something none of the others were doing because they knew they could never truly enrich themselves financially in the armed forces. Greenwald, who is Jewish, understands what the consequences would have been had the Axis won World War II. He refers to Nazi atrocities, declaring, at one point, that it is men like Queeg who have saved his own mother, Mrs. Greenwald, from having been "melted down to
6305-575: The part of Murphy, so Field and Ritt had to insist on Garner. Part of the deal from the studio, which at that time was owned by The Coca-Cola Company , included an eight-line sequence of Field and Garner saying the word "Coke," and also having Coke signs appear prominently in the film. In A&E 's Biography of Garner, Field reported that her on-screen kiss with Garner was the best cinematic kiss she had ever experienced. Garner played Wyatt Earp (whom he physically resembled) in two very different movies shot 21 years apart, John Sturges ' Hour of
6402-502: The past by Boyne and found by Johnny in a bookstore. The series' producer Roy Huggins noted in his Archive of American Television interview that he subsequently cast Garner as the lead in Maverick due to his comedic facial expressions while playing scenes in "Man from 1997" that were not originally written to be comical (Huggins knew this because he'd written the episode himself). Garner changed his last name from Bumgarner to Garner after
6499-562: The play See also [ edit ] The Caine Mutiny (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Caine_Mutiny_Court-Martial&oldid=1236833838 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
6596-742: The play for allegedly saying, "The South stinks. It's a land of sowbelly and segregation," which offended Southern audiences. Douglas claimed that he was misquoted. It was revived in 1983 at the Stamford Center for the Arts , Stamford, Connecticut and then at the Circle in the Square Theatre in a production directed by Arthur Sherman with John Rubinstein and Michael Moriarty , with Jay O. Sanders as Maryk. Former New York Jets quarterback Joe Namath (widely known as "Broadway Joe") replaced Sanders during
6693-430: The reasons for Greenwald's trial strategy, and the two had once again parted as friends.) Greenwald proposes a toast to "Old Yellowstain." Unlike Caine ' s junior officers, Greenwald feels deep regret over what he did to Queeg on the witness stand. To Greenwald, though Phil Queeg was a weak man, perhaps he was still an admirable one, and Queeg and career military men like him are actually heroic figures, since they were
6790-434: The revival series Bret Maverick , but NBC unexpectedly canceled the show after only one season despite reasonably good ratings. Critics noted that the scripts did not measure up to the episodes starring Garner in the first series . Jack Kelly ( Bart Maverick ) was slated to become a series regular had the show been picked up for another season. Kelly was presented with a stack of finished scripts featuring Bart Maverick for
6887-665: The run of the show, marking his only appearance on Broadway. Charlton Heston directed a critically acclaimed production in Los Angeles and London in 1984 in which he starred as Queeg. Heston later brought the production to the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Theater , where it again garnered critical acclaim. The play was first presented on television live in 1955, with Lloyd Nolan and Robert Gist repeating their stage roles as Queeg and Lt. Keefer, respectively, but with Barry Sullivan as Greenwald and Frank Lovejoy as Lt. Maryk. It
6984-577: The season unless another actor was added. Critics were positive about the chemistry between Garner and Kelly and the series occasionally featured popular cross-over episodes starring both Maverick brothers as well as numerous brief appearances by Kelly in Garner episodes. This included the famous " Shady Deal at Sunny Acres ," upon which the first half of the 1973 movie The Sting appears to be based, according to Roy Huggins' Archive of American Television interview. Garner and guest star Clint Eastwood staged
7081-513: The season's first episode if Garner lost his lawsuit against Warner Bros. Garner won in court, left the series, and the episode was run in the middle of the season instead. The studio attempted to replace Garner's character with a Maverick cousin who had lived in Britain long enough to gain an English accent, featuring Roger Moore as Beau Maverick , but Moore left the series after filming only 14 episodes . Warner Bros. had also hired Robert Colbert ,
7178-454: The series two years previously. The studio did, however, reverse the billing , at the beginning of each show and in advertisements during the fifth season, billing Kelly above Garner. Garner played the lead role in Darby's Rangers (1958). Originally slated for a supporting role, he was given the lead when Charlton Heston turned down the part. He performed well as William Orlando Darby , who
7275-409: The series. In one explanation for the unusual denouement, the recast as the character's somewhat more normal twin brother would have hopefully created a more popular series with few cast changes. However, according to Garner's 1999 videotaped Archive of American Television interview, Garner killed his character because they had already cancelled the show and played his own twin because they had to finish
7372-427: The ship in danger. Maryk took command, applying Article 184 of Navy Regulations, and steered Caine directly into the storm—the opposite in what Queeg had wanted. Caine and her entire crew survived, and rescued survivors from a capsized navy vessel, which Maryk thinks is proof that he acted appropriately. Maryk's lawyer, Lt. Barney Greenwald, indicates that he thinks Maryk, whom he would much rather have prosecuted in
7469-433: The ship's log, an enraged Queeg rants that he was surrounded by disloyal officers, and he looks exactly like the panicky paranoid that Maryk had described. By the time the defense rests, Queeg is a broken man, and everyone else present knows that Maryk will be acquitted. Maryk is relieved, if not totally ecstatic, and he invites Greenwald to a celebration party that Tom Keefer is hosting later that evening. (Keefer has written
7566-464: The show was canceled after only 10 episodes. In 1993, Garner played the lead in a well-received HBO movie, the true story Barbarians at the Gate , and went on to reprise his role as Jim Rockford in eight The Rockford Files made-for-TV movies beginning the following year. Practically everyone in the original cast of recurring characters returned for the new episodes except Noah Beery Jr., who had died in
7663-418: The strawberries from the icebox, and eaten them, before the icebox was padlocked, and that no duplicate key existed, Queeg's refusal to accept their confession and dedication to proving his theory convinces the officers that Queeg is trying to reenact the circumstances of his prior success against all evidence to the contrary. Finally, Maryk describes the events of the night of the mutiny itself. Maryk says Caine
7760-399: The studio had credited him as "James Garner" without permission. He then legally changed it upon the birth of his child, when he decided she had too many names. After several feature film roles, including Sayonara (1957) with Marlon Brando , Garner got his big break playing the role of professional gambler Bret Maverick in the Western series Maverick from 1957 to 1960. In 1959, he
7857-551: The studio with "deceiving him and suppressing information about syndication". He was supposed to receive $ 25,000 per episode that ran in syndication, but Universal charged him "distribution fees". He also felt that the studio did not release the show to the highest bidder for the episode reruns. Garner and Jack Kelly reappeared as Bret and Bart Maverick in a 1978 made-for-television film titled The New Maverick written by Juanita Bartlett , directed by Hy Averback , and also starring Susan Sullivan as Poker Alice . As had often been
7954-572: The studio, Columbia Pictures , to have Garner cast, since he was regarded as a TV actor by then despite having co-starred in the box office hit Victor/Victoria opposite Julie Andrews two years earlier. Columbia did not want to make the movie, because it had no "sex or violence" in it. But because of the success of Norma Rae (1979), with the same star (Field), director, and screenplay writing team ( Harriet Frank Jr. and Irving Ravetch ), and with Field's new production company (Fogwood Films) producing, Columbia agreed. L wanted Marlon Brando to play
8051-827: The typhoon had Keefer not poisoned the atmosphere in the first place. Greenwald denounces Keefer, and throws a glassful of yellow wine into his face (echoing the insulting nickname of "Old Yellowstain" the crew members had given to Queeg), before walking out of the party, an act which ruins it. James Garner James Scott Garner ( né Bumgarner ; April 7, 1928 – July 19, 2014) was an American actor. He played leading roles in more than 50 theatrical films, which included The Great Escape (1963) with Steve McQueen ; Paddy Chayefsky 's The Americanization of Emily (1964) with Julie Andrews ; Cash McCall (1960) with Natalie Wood ; The Wheeler Dealers (1963) with Lee Remick ; Darby's Rangers (1958) with Stuart Whitman ; Roald Dahl 's 36 Hours (1965) with Eva Marie Saint ; as
8148-463: The upcoming second season, and he appeared in the last scene of the final episode in a surprise guest appearance. During the 1980s, Garner played dramatic roles in a number of television films, including Heartsounds with Mary Tyler Moore featuring the true story of a doctor (played by Garner) who is deprived of oxygen for too long during an operation and wakes up mentally impaired; Promise with James Woods and Piper Laurie , about dealing with
8245-465: The wake of the continuous jumping and rolling, and he was hospitalized with a bleeding ulcer in 1979. When Garner's physician ordered him to rest, the studio immediately cancelled The Rockford Files . Stuart Margolin (who played Angel Martin in The Rockford Files ) said that despite Garner's health problems in the later years of The Rockford Files, he would often work long shifts, unusual for
8342-477: Was " creatively accounting ", two words that are now part of the Hollywood lexicon. The suit was eventually settled out of court in 1989. As part of the agreement, Garner could not disclose the amount of the settlement. "The industry is like it always has been. It's a bunch of greedy people," he stated in 1990. Garner sued Universal again in 1998 for $ 2.2 million over syndication royalties. In this suit, he charged
8439-409: Was a coward, that he was giving panicky, conflicting orders during the typhoon, requiring Maryk to take action. During cross-examination, Greenwald gets Keith to tell numerous stories of Queeg's ineptitude, vanity, dishonesty, pettiness and seeming cowardice; indeed, one such incident led Caine ' s officers to give Queeg the nickname "Old Yellowstain." Lt. Thomas Keefer, another friend of Maryk's,
8536-478: Was a damn no-good woman". Garner's last stepmother was Grace, whom he said he loved and called "Mama Grace", and he felt that she was more of a mother to him than anyone else had been. Shortly after Garner's father's marriage to Wilma broke up, his father moved to Los Angeles , leaving Garner and his brothers in Norman. After working at several jobs he disliked, Garner joined the U.S. Merchant Marine at age 16 near
8633-432: Was an ensign, he drew the same conclusion: someone must have stolen them from the wardroom icebox, using a copy of the original key to its padlock. Queeg's steadfast belief that this was a repeat of the same MO as the first thief led him to divert extraordinary amounts of manpower to search the ship thoroughly for a copy of the icebox-padlock key. When several of the enlisted men confessed to Maryk that they had simply stolen
8730-558: Was approximately Garner's age during World War II. Following Garner's success in Maverick and Darby's Rangers , Warner Bros. gave Garner two more major theatrical films to be filmed during breaks in his Maverick shooting schedule: Up Periscope (1959) with Edmond O'Brien and the romantic drama Cash McCall (1960) with Natalie Wood . After his acrimonious departure from Warner Bros. in 1960, Garner briefly found himself graylisted by Warner until director William Wyler hired him for
8827-604: Was billed over Garner, the film actually gave more screen time and emphasis to Earp. For the second half of the 1980s, Garner also appeared in several of the North American market Mazda television commercials as an on-screen spokesman. In 1991, Garner starred in Man of the People , a television series about a con man chosen to fill an empty seat on a city council, with Kate Mulgrew and Corinne Bohrer . Despite reasonably fair ratings,
8924-467: Was born James Scott Bumgarner on April 7, 1928, in Denver, Oklahoma, (now under Lake Thunderbird ). His parents were Weldon Warren Bumgarner (1901–1986), a widower, and Mildred Scott ( née Meek; 1907–1933), who died five years after his birth. His father was of part German ancestry. His mother was half Cherokee. His older brothers were Jack Garner , also an actor, and Charles Warren Bumgarner (1924–1984),
9021-449: Was cold and hard. I was one of the lucky ones." In 1954, Paul Gregory , a friend whom Garner had met while attending Hollywood High School, persuaded Garner to take a nonspeaking role in the Broadway production of The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial , where he was able to study Henry Fonda night after night. During the week of Garner's death in 2014, TCM broadcast a marathon, July 28, of
9118-549: Was first broadcast on May 8, 1988 and was subsequently released on VHS , LaserDisc , and DVD . The play was again revived on Broadway in 2006 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre in a production directed by Jerry Zaks , starring Željko Ivanek as Queeg, Timothy Daly as prosecutor Lt. Cmdr. John Challee and David Schwimmer as Greenwald. The action takes place in The General Court-Martial Room of
9215-607: Was foundering, on the verge of sinking, and that Queeg was too frightened and paranoid to take the proper steps to save the ship. Only at this most desperate moment did Maryk see fit to take command. After the ship was out of danger, Maryk wrote a full account of his actions in the ship's log. He claims that Queeg came to him and proposed erasing this embarrassing incident from the log--a serious breach of Naval ethics. Maryk refused to do so, electing instead to take full responsibility for his actions. The prosecuting attorney, John Challee, asks Maryk about his background. Maryk answers that he
9312-483: Was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his performance as Bret Maverick. Only Garner and series creator Roy Huggins thought Maverick could compete with The Ed Sullivan Show and The Steve Allen Show but for two years it beat both in the time slot. The show almost immediately made Garner a household name. Garner was the lone star of Maverick for
9409-571: Was staged as an episode of the anthology series Ford Star Jubilee . In 1988, Robert Altman directed another made-for-television version of The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial for Columbia Pictures Television (CPT) . The cast included Eric Bogosian as Barney Greenwald, Jeff Daniels as Steve Maryk, Brad Davis as Philip Francis Queeg, Peter Gallagher as John Challee, Kevin J. O'Connor as Tom Keefer, Daniel Jenkins as Willie Keith, and Altman regular Michael Murphy as Captain Blakely. The production
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