The Caine Mutiny (1954)

Whit Bissell: Lt. Comdr. Dickson M.D.

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• Lt. Barney Greenwald : Doctor, you have testified that the following symptoms exist in Lieutenant Commander Queeg's behavior: rigidity of personality, feelings of persecution, unreasonable suspicion, a mania for perfection, and a neurotic certainty that he is always in the right. Doctor, isn't there one psychiatric term for this illness?

  Doctor Dickson : I never said there was any illness.

• Doctor Dickson : If I may speak, sir, I would like to protest the counsel's twisting of words. There's a big difference between real mental illness and minor mental disturbances.

  Barney Greenwald : Let me put it this way, doctor: could Captain Queeg have been disabled by the severe stain of command?

  Doctor Dickson : That's absurdly hypothetical.

  Barney Greenwald : Is it? Have you ever had any sea duty, doctor?

  Doctor Dickson : No.

  Barney Greenwald : Have you ever been at sea?

  Doctor Dickson : No.

  Barney Greenwald : How long have you been in the Navy?

  Doctor Dickson : Five months.

  Barney Greenwald : Have you ever had any dealings with ship's captains before this case?

  Doctor Dickson : No.

  Barney Greenwald : Then I suggest that you cannot set yourself up as an authority on the strain of command, and thus you may be completely wrong about Captain Queeg.

  [to the prosecutor] 

  Barney Greenwald : Your witness.