The film got a major pre-release boost three weeks before its premiere when Bogart as Queeg appeared on the cover of the June 7 , 1954 issue of '' Time '' magazine . The accompanying cover story ( " Cinema : The Survivor " ) praised Bogart 's portrayal of Queeg as " a blustering , secretive figure in Navy suntans , who brings the hollow , driven , tyrannical character of Captain Queeg to full and invidious life , yet seldom fails to maintain a bond of sympathy with his audience . He deliberately gives Queeg the mannerisms and appearance of an officer of sternness and decision , and then gradually discloses him as a man who is bottling up a scream , a man who never meets another 's eyes . In the courtroom scene , Bogart 's Queeg seems oblivious of his own mounting hysteria . Then , suddenly , he knows he is undone ; he stops and stares stricken at the court , during second after ticking second of dramatic and damning silence . " Director Edward Dmytryk felt '' The Caine Mutiny '' could have been better than it was and should have been three and a half to four hours long to fully portray all the characters and complex story , but Columbia 's Cohn insisted on a two-hour limit . Reviewing the film in '' The New York Times '' , Bosley Crowther wrote that the job of condensing Wouk 's novel to two hours had been achieved " with clarity and vigor , on the whole . " His reservations concerned the studio 's attempt to " cram " in " more of the novel than was required " such as the " completely extraneous " love affair between Keith and May Wynn that Crowther found to be a plot diversion that weakened dramatic tension . Although he doubted whether the novel had a structure suited for film , he noted that Roberts had " endeavored to follow it faithfully . " The result , he argued , was that the court-martial became " an anticlimax " as it repeated Queeg 's visible collapse seen in the typhoon but still considered the core of the film " smartly and stingingly played " and " though somewhat garbled " was still " a vibrant film . " For the 27th Academy Awards , the film received nominations for Best Picture ( won by '' On the Waterfront '' ) , Best Actor ( Humphrey Bogart , losing to Marlon Brando for '' On the Waterfront '' ) , Best Supporting Actor ( Tom Tully ) , Best Screenplay , Best Sound Recording ( John P. Livadary ) , Best Film Editing , and Best Dramatic Score ( Max Steiner ) , but won no awards
27th Academy Awards
27th Academy Awards
The Caine Mutiny (film)