A lawyer reluctantly defends an officer of the Navy who took control of the Caine from its captain while caught in a violent sea storm. As the court-martial proceeds, however, he increasingly questions if it was truly a mutiny.. A World War II Naval officer is court-martialed for relieving paranoid Capt. Queeg of command during a typhoon.
Based on the Herman Wouk's Pulitzer Prize novel, featuring Robert Francis, Van Johnson, and Fred MacMurray as shipmates during WWII, aboard a destroyer-cum-m.. An officer stands trial for relieving Capt. Queeg of his command.