The movie "The Caine Mutiny" is an exceptionally good story. However, the book is perhaps better and presents a different sort of story. Instead of the crew taking control of the ship because the captain is incompetent and had been throughout much of the movie, the book is much more vague and you never are really sure if the crew was right to mutiny. In many ways, this episode of "Police Story" is like the novel...though by the very end things ARE quite clear.
The story begins with a clumsily filmed and executed SWAT team response to a deranged man threatening to kill people. I say clumsy because it came off as rather phony and silly after the team acted. Fortunately, the rest of the show is much better and shows a widening gulf between the new SWAT team leader (James Farentino) and his second in command (Jan-Michael Vincent). Much of the time it's not clear who is in the right...but ultimately it all worked itself out.
Apart from the badly executed initial SWAT team response, the show was pretty good...though CLEARLY a reworking of the famous Herman Wouk novel. It's especially clear this is the case when one of the men declares "We have ourselves a real Captain Queeg here..."....and Queeg was the Captain in "The Caine Mutiny".
The story begins with a clumsily filmed and executed SWAT team response to a deranged man threatening to kill people. I say clumsy because it came off as rather phony and silly after the team acted. Fortunately, the rest of the show is much better and shows a widening gulf between the new SWAT team leader (James Farentino) and his second in command (Jan-Michael Vincent). Much of the time it's not clear who is in the right...but ultimately it all worked itself out.
Apart from the badly executed initial SWAT team response, the show was pretty good...though CLEARLY a reworking of the famous Herman Wouk novel. It's especially clear this is the case when one of the men declares "We have ourselves a real Captain Queeg here..."....and Queeg was the Captain in "The Caine Mutiny".