The film was a superb re-envisioning of the insightful Nicholas Ray, Eisenhower-Era melodrama about the family,Bigger Than Life (1956)- hat also critiqued the suffocating and claustrophobic conformity of 1950s middle-class life in an earlier era.Bannion: We don""t talk about those things in this house, do we? No, it""s too elegant, too respectable.Keefer, and later became a Robert Altman-directed TV movieThe Caine Mutiny Court Martialin 1988, with Eric Bogosian (as Greenwald), Jeff Daniels (as Maryk), Brad Davis (as Queeg), Peter Gallagher, Michael Murphy, and Kevin J.The sullen workers leaving the subterranean machine area after their shift are exhausted, marching in unison only half as fast as the new shift of entering employees.