The report on the brutal ice-pick murder includes gruesome details, no clues, and no solid leads in the case: thirty-one stab wounds to the neck and chest, no usable fingerprints, no forcible entry, nothing missing." The strong-willed, career-minded Vicky caught up with him, and without knowing who she was, he mentioned her Aunt""s ploy: "We were, it appears, to be treated to a little dancing exhibition...the Captain and the cause of ""The Caine Mutiny""JOSE FERRER - as GREENWALD...who understood the reason for ""The Caine Mutiny""VAN JOHNSON - as MARYK...whose damning diary sparked ""The Caine Mutiny""FRED MacMURRAY - as KEEFER...the brain who plotted ""The Caine Mutiny""Similar to the making ofFrom Here to Eternity (1953)- another film depicting semi-negative aspects of military life, the Navy Department originally objected o the making of this film, due to its depiction of a mentally-disturbed man (obsessed about the theft of frozen strawberries, and continually rolling steel balls in his hand) as the captain of a US naval vessel, and the use of the word ""mutiny"" in the film""s title." Posters advertised: "A HUNDRED STEPS AHEAD OF ANY PICTURE THIS YEAR."Over a four day period, the suave, imperturbable and clever male protagonist (played by Robert Donat who had recently starred in the swashbucklerThe Count of Monte Cristo (1934)and was popularly known as the "Monte Cristo Man"), is paired (literally handcuffed) to a classic, cool and icy, intelligent blonde maiden - Madeleine Carroll.