I saw the movie on a local TV channel in the 70s not long after reading the book in high school. It was one of those rare times that a movie did the book justice. The ending involving the narrator was a touch different, but over all, it was faithful to the book and brilliantly cast. As others have mentioned, Bogie was superb as was Jose Ferrer. I never imagined Ferrer in the part of the lawyer, but he did a great job with it. Fred MacMurray made a great weaselly Lt. Keefer.
"The play was first presented by Paul Gregory in the Granada Theatre, Santa Barbara, California, on October 12, 1953 and then went on tour across the United States before being given its first performance on Broadway at the Plymouth Theatre on 20 January 1954 in a production directed by Charles Laughton and produced by Paul Gregory. The play starred Henry Fonda as Barney Greenwald, the accused mutineer's defense attorney, and John Hodiak as the accused, Steve Maryk; Lloyd Nolan played Queeg. Herbert Anderson (later Dennis the Menace's father on TV) played Dr. Bird. James Garner appeared in a non speaking role as a court martial panelist. It ran for 415 performances.
"It was revived in 1983 at the Stamford Center for the Arts, Stamford, Connecticut and then at the Circle in the Square Theatre in a production directed by Arthur Sherman with John Rubinstein and Michael Moriarty, with Jay O. Sanders as Maryk. Former New York Jets quarterback Joe Namath (widely known as "Broadway Joe") replaced Sanders during the run of the show, marking his only appearance on Broadway.
"Charlton Heston directed a critically acclaimed production in Los Angeles and London in 1984 in which he starred as Queeg. Heston later brought the production to the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Theater,[1] where it again garnered critical acclaim.
"The play was first presented on television live in 1955, with Lloyd Nolan and Robert Gist repeating their stage roles as Queeg and Lt. Keefer, respectively, but with Barry Sullivan as Greenwald and Frank Lovejoy as Lt. Maryk. It was staged as an episode of the anthology series Ford Star Jubilee.
"In 1988 Robert Altman directed another made-for-television version of The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial for CBS. The cast included Eric Bogosian as Barney Greenwald, Jeff Daniels as Steve Maryk, Brad Davis as Philip Francis Queeg, Peter Gallagher as John Challee, Kevin J. O'Connor as Tom Keefer, Daniel Jenkins as Willie Keith, and Altman regular Michael Murphy as Captain Blakely. The production was first broadcast on May 8, 1988 and was subsequently released on VHS, laserdisc, and DVD."
BTW I saw Chuck Heston as Queeg in his directed production in Los Angeles and he blew than pants off the part. He was a vary under-rated actor boys and girls.