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Captain Queeg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lieutenant Commander Philip Francis Queeg , USN, is a fictional character in Herman Wouk's 1951 novel The Caine Mutiny . He is also a character in the identically titled 1954 film adaptation of th...
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The Caine Mutiny - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not us. Oh, no! We knew you couldn't make any money in the service. So who did the dirty work for us? Queeg did! And a lot of other guys, tough, sharp guys who didn't crack up like Queeg. Keith: But no matter what, Captain Queeg endangered the ship and the lives of the men.
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He attempts to turn the ship too quickly when backing out of the slip and badly scrapes the side of a neighboring ship. Queeg then forgets to stop the engines and grounds the ship on the other side of the channel.
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He is Captain Queeg at the Ship of State. But that Ship of State has turned out to be a Ship of Fools. No one is able to correctly identify what is so crazy about this (so far, all the criticisms have been for the wrong, not the right, reasons) or to force him to change his catastrophic course.
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Nothing quite like seeing Captain Queeg come to life right there on the screen, all paranoia and delusion, ... Queeg turns the ship upside down, strip searches the crew, collects and tags all the keys on board with the intention of testing each one on the icebox lock. Since the key MUST exist, it WILL be found.
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Naval officers begin to suspect their captain of insanity. ... When the captain finally arrives, he grows anxious at the enemy shelling and alarmed as Steve slows the ship to protect the smaller landing craft. Queeg orders the Caine to drop its yellow dye marker to indicate the landing zone, then to retreat to open sea.
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