Wouk came to view “Caine,” published in 1951, as an “anecdote” about the war, in which he served as a Navy lieutenant. “Caine” also was made into a notable film in 1954, directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring Humphrey Bogart as an unforgettable Queeg. The play ran for a year and was revived on Broadway in 1983 and again in 2006. Barney Greenwald, the lawyer who defended the officer who took the command away from his captain. In 1954, Wouk turned the court-martial aspect of the novel into a Broadway play with Lloyd Nolan as Queeg and Henry Fonda as Lt. But the moral ambiguity also added to the book’s complexity and helped ensure its place in important World War II fiction. Many critics found this turnabout ending an apologia of Queeg and a trick on the reader. “I got you off by phony legal tricks - by making clowns of Queeg and a Freudian psychiatrist - which was like shooting two tuna fish in a barrel,” the inebriated lawyer spits at his client. In the midst of the drunken celebration of the victory over Queeg, the officer who has been named captain of the Caine is berated by his own attorney. But Wouk doesn’t let the character or the crew off that easily. The officer who took over the Caine is legally vindicated in a court-martial for his removal of Queeg. My beloved father, Herman Wouk ז”ל /aRvPFUChMK- Joseph Wouk May 17, 2019
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