The Caine Mutiny

My godmother took me to see The Caine Mutiny at a theater in Wilkes-Barre, PA. The year was 1954 and I was eleven. Might not’ve been born had it not been for Pearl Harbor and World War II. Thus, I was back then, and still am, extremely interested in everything related to that war.

Most of the movie takes place aboard the fictitious U.S.S. Caine, a beat-up destroyer on its last legs near the end of the war. The Navy Department didn’t want Hollywood to make the movie because the ship’s ca...