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The Caine
Mutiny (1954)
In director Edward Dmytryk's military drama:
- the concluding scene of the by-the-book and paranoid
Captain Queeg's (Humphrey Bogart) disintegration on the witness
stand while nervously manipulating steel ball bearings in his hand
- his incoherent, crazy and unhinged ramblings during
the court-martial trial about disloyal officers and about the strawberry
incident, after being broken down and cross-examined by lawyer Lt.
Barney Greenwald (Jose Ferrer): ("Ah, but the strawberries!
That's, that's where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes,
but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt, and with, with geometric
logic, that, that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox did exist,
and I've had produced that key if they hadn't pulled the Caine out
of action. I, I know now they were only trying to protect some fellow
officer. (He paused - looked at all the questioning faces that stared
back at him, and realized that he had been ranting and raving) Naturally,
I can only cover these things from memory. If I left anything out,
why, just ask me specific questions and I'll be glad to answer them")
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"Strawberries" Speech During Court-Martial Trial
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