The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial [Unabridged] [Audio Cassette]

Herman Wouk (Author), David Selby (Actor), Dan Lauria (Actor)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 10, 2001 | Series: Audio Theatre Collection

When the commanding officer of the U.S.S. Caine is transferred, a new captain, strict disciplinarian Philip Francis Queeg, replaces him. But Queeg's actions go beyond strictness into psychopathology as he brings the ship and its crew to the brink of destruction. This necessitates a brutal shipboard court-martial that threatens by turns to clear or condemn him. In adapting his novel for the theater, Herman Wouk focused on the heart of the story: the trial and the man at its center. The result is a grimly effective picture of Queeg's disintegration from perfectionist to paranoid that acts as an indictment not only of an individual but of a society that produces such men.

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From Library Journal

This compelling account of a mutiny at sea, when performed on stage or screen, seems real. It is fiction, from Wouk's own Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Caine Mutiny, which focuses on a 1945 U.S. Naval court-martial. Edgy, duplicitous Lt. Commander Queeg (portrayed by David Selby) testifies against honest if misguided Lt. Meryk (David Fendig), who deposed him to save a ship in a typhoon. The skilled cast of nine men, including Dan Lauria and Josh Stamberg, tend to speak rapidly when tension builds. In some brief instances, that may make if difficult to identify the speaker. The recording has studio clarity; recommended for students and enthusiasts of mid-20th-century classic drama. Gordon Blackwell, Eastchester, NY
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This compelling account of a mutiny at sea, when performed on stage or screen, seems real. It is fiction, from Wouk's own Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Caine Mutiny, which focuses on a 1945 U.S. Naval court-martial. Edgy, duplicitous Lt. Commander Queeg (portrayed by David Selby) testifies against honest if misguided Lt. Meryk (David Fendig), who deposed him to save a ship in a typhoon. The skilled cast of nine men, including Dan Lauria and Josh Stamberg, tend to speak rapidly when tension builds. In some brief instances, that may make if difficult to identify the speaker. The recording has studio clarity; recommended for students and enthusiasts of mid-20th-century classic drama. --Library Journal --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

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Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: L.A. Theatre Works; Unabridged edition (October 10, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1580812031
• ISBN-13: 978-1580812030
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,503,052 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars IT'S NOT BOGIE AND FERRER....BUT IT'S GOOD, July 16, 2005

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B. BOESENBERG "REPTILED" (WANAQUE, NJ United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (Audio Cassette)

To do it justice it was excellent! But if you've already seen Humphrey Bogart and Jose' Ferrer in the Cain Mutiny movie then you've already seen the best that can be done. This audio book has some more and some different information but it's really close. The actors did fine jobs but better than Bogart and Ferrer, no. I enjoyed it as a comparison read and if you can suspend your memory, don't criticize and just absorb, you will enjoy it.

2.0 out of 5 stars Please note: This is *not* the book, July 17, 2007

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Glen Murley (Sagamore Beach, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (Audio CD)

Not a review as much as simply a warning. If you're looking for "The Caine Mutiny" audiobook, this is *not* it. This is the unabridged play...with actors reading their parts. If this is what you're looking for, then jump right in. If you're looking for an auiobook of the actual 560 page text...this is not it.