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The Caine Mutiny is a 1952 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Herman Wouk. The novel grew out of Wouk's personal experiences aboard two destroyer-minesweepers in the Pacific Theater in World War II . Among its themes, it deals with the moral and ethical decisions made at sea by ship captains and other officers.
The second novel written by Wouk, City Boy was largely ignored by the reading public until the success of The Caine Mutiny resurrected interest in Wouk's writing. Like The Caine Mutiny, the novel is semi-autobiographical in setting and situations, if not protagonist. In 1969, the novel was re-issued, with paperback editions in 1980 and 1992 ...
First edition . 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 the Pacific.
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial — the last feature film that William Friedkin directed, before the Academy Award winner passed away in August — is skipping theaters and instead will exclusively ...
Book Author January 6: The Caine Mutiny: Herman Wouk: January 13 January 20 January 27 February 3 February 10 February 17 February 24 March 2 March 9 March 16 March 23 March 30: My Cousin Rachel: Daphne du Maurier: April 6 April 13 April 20 April 27 May 4 May 11 May 18 May 25: The Caine Mutiny: Herman Wouk June 1 June 8 June 15 June 22 June 29 ...
The latest adaptation of Herman Wouk's 1953 stage play is a tightly concentrated courtroom drama, well acted by Kiefer Sutherland, Lance Reddick and Jason Clarke.
Mounted as the filmed version of a stage play, “The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial” has more in common with “A Few Good Men” than the 1954 movie starring Humphrey Bogart, and might be as ...
Herman Wouk (/ w oʊ k / WOHK; May 27, 1915 – May 17, 2019) was an American author.He published fifteen novels, many of them historical fiction such as The Caine Mutiny (1951), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction.