Soundtrack The original soundtrack album for The Caine Mutiny was not officially released until 2017, and copies of the soundtrack made before that are very rare. Perhaps a dozen copies survive. RCA Victor planned an LP release with musical excerpts on the first side and the complete dialogue of the climactic court-martial scene on side two, but Herman Wouk believed that including this scene was an infringement on his recently opened Broadway play dealing with the court-martial. He threatened to prohibit Columbia Pictures from making any further adaptations of his work. According to Wouk, "Columbia head Harry Cohn looked into the matter, called me back, and said in his tough gravelly voice, 'I've got you beat on the legalities, but I've listened to the record and it's no goddamn good, so I'm yanking it.'" Max Steiner's score was finally released by Intrada Records in 2017 as Special Collection Volume ISC 382.
Soundtrack The original soundtrack album for The Caine Mutiny was not officially released until 2017 and copies of the soundtrack made before that are very rare Perhaps a dozen copies survive RCA Victor planned an LP release with musical excerpts on the first side and the complete dialogue of the climactic court-martial scene on side two but Herman Wouk believed that including this scene was an infringement on his recently opened Broadway play dealing with the court-martial He threatened to prohibit Columbia Pictures from making any further adaptations of his work According to Wouk "Columbia head Harry Cohn looked into the matter called me back and said in his tough gravelly voice 'I've got you beat on the legalities but I've listened to the record and it's no goddamn good so I'm yanking it'" Max Steiner's score was finally released by Intrada Records in 2017 as Special Collection Volume ISC 382