Notes: The Caine Mutiny cost an estimated 2 million to make and grossed 8.7. Cast Ben Cross, Charlton Heston, John Corey, Stephen Macht, Joe George, Frank Aletter, Michael Thoma, William Wright, Robert Rockwell, Vincent Marzello, Karl Wiedergott and others. Commander Philip Francis Quegg Jose Ferrer. Weldon (with Lionel Becker and Jerome Minskoff). Producers the Kennedy Center and Joseph Wouk by special arrangement with Duncan C. They do not overcome the absence of anything worth watching.Ī revival of Herman Wouk’s adaptation of his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel at the Henry Fonda Theatre. Saul Radomsky’s set is appropriately massive and Martin Aronstein’s lighting bright enough. The emotional breakdown at the heart of that performance simply doesn’t work. One can understand the attraction of the role, but Heston, with his impressive stature and deportment, could hardly be less suited for it. And his own Queeg is primarily a variation on clenched jaws. His actors, even the good ones, give strictly vocal performances-from the mouth out. Some of the blame for that can be shared by the Fonda Theatre, whose wine-colored walls close in on an audience after a while, but nothing that lives and breathes is going on on that stage to counteract the effect.Īs director, Heston has given us a by-the-numbers reconstitution of the play. Regrettably, his direction is as inert as his performance in a production that becomes almost claustrophobic in its lack of true energy. Inevitably, one has to look to Heston, who is at the center of the event.
Cross, like the rest of the company, seems caught in a trance of respectability that makes this “Caine Mutiny” one of the dreariest and most mechanical on record. No sense of the brash, streetwise, original-thinking Jew exists in the performance. It is also possible to buy 'The Caine Mutiny' on Apple iTunes, Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, YouTube. Aside from the debatable issue of whether it should or should not have sanctioned Cross for the role, the production overall is so irretrievably flat that it seems to matter little, one way or the other.įor all of his casual polish, Cross brings little fire to his attorney for the defense. Barney Greenwald in a flawless American accent.Īctors’ Equity has relaxed its rules about English actors performing in the States in the much healthier interest of improved cultural exchange.
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Improbably, English actor Ben Cross (best known in this country for his leading role in the movie “Chariots of Fire”) was retained from the British company to play the very American Lt. Charlton Heston directed and starred then-as he does now-as the neurotic Captain Queeg. The production that has taken up residence there for three weeks (on its way to Washington’s Kennedy Center) is a reproduction of one that, we are told, caused a stir last season in London.
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