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The Caine Mutiny (1954) More at IMDbPro »

• Anachronisms: When singing in the nightclub, supposedly in 1944, May Wynn sings into a 1950s-design hand-held microphone.
  
  
• Continuity: The position of Queeg's hands changes between shots while he's sitting in the wardroom.
  
  
• Anachronisms: During the trial, part of a calendar is visible on the back wall. It shows April beginning on a Wednesday, August on a Saturday, and December on a Tuesday. The trial is taking place presumably in 1944 or early 1945. These dates did not fall on these days of the week in either of these years; the last time this had happened was in 1942. The next time it happened was 1953 - the year the film was shot.
  
  

• Anachronisms: At the Navy administration building in San Francisco, post-war Chevies are seen. They look like '51-2 models.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When Keefer, Keith and Maryk are riding up the aircraft elevator on the carrier, F9F Panther jets are clearly visible in the background sitting in the hanger bay. The F9F Panther did not enter fleet use until 1949.
  
  
• Factual errors: When the Caine is first seen, it has the very large peacetime numbers on the side of the ship, but it should have the much smaller war-time numbers on the side of the ship, as it does later in the film.
  
  
• Continuity: During the typhoon sequence, distant shots show the Caine model missing the forward stack and foremast before the close-up shots showing the actual collapse of both structures.
  
  
• Continuity: When the Caine is accompanying the landing craft during the invasion, an aerial shot shows three circular disturbances in the water on the starboard side of the ship which were from attempts to shell the Caine from defensive shore batteries. The actual shelling takes place after the aerial shot appears.
  
  
• Continuity: In the shots of the Caine towing the target, the sky is clear; but in the shots of warships shooting at the target, the sky is overcast.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The Gun Control Radar on the Caine was not available until the 1950s.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The lettering on the CV 33 is yellow. During WWII, it is supposed to have been white.
  
  
• Factual errors: Admiral's Flagship, hull #33, was the Kearsarge. The Kearsarge was not commissioned until March of 1946. As the movie takes place during World War II, the ship didn't exist.
  
  
• Factual errors: By definition, a mutiny includes enlisted men and officers; since only officers were revolting, it would be the "Caine Barratry."
  
  
• Factual errors: Maryk, Keefer, and Keith are seen referring to Admiral Halsey's flagship as the carrier Enterprise. While it did serve as his flagship early in the war, his flagship by this time was the USS New Jersey, a battleship.
  
  
• Continuity: Before going to Yosemite, as Willie is talking with his mother, their positions change from being in close to being at arm's length.
  
  
• Anachronisms: Lt. Barney Greenwald arrives to the court building in a post-war Jeep.
  
  
• Continuity: When Ens. Willis Seward Keith's mother places a $100.00 bill in his pocket for spending money, you can see the edge sticking out. After he turns to leave, the money is not sticking out anymore.
  
  
• Continuity: During the first officers' meeting scene with Captain Queeg, Seaman 1st Class Urban enters the wardroom. As the POV switches from behind Queeg to in front of him, we see his left arm on the table (from behind) then on the arm of the chair (from in front) repeatedly.
  
  
• Factual errors: Captain Queeg, played by 53-year-old Humphrey Bogart, is clearly far too old to have been from the graduating class of 1936. In actual fact, the character of Queeg was only supposed to be about thirty.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the Caine is accompanying the landing craft during the invasion, the teletype instructions shown state, "...1000 yards 'OF' shore..." in error, and should read, "...1000 yards 'OFF' shore..."
  
  

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