Murphy's War

  • Drama
  • War
1/27/1971
107
PG

World War Two was just ending. World War Murphy is about to begin.

Murphy is the sole survivor of his crew, that has been massacred by a German U-Boat in the closing days of World War II. He is rescued, and ends up at a forgotten mission station near the mouth of the Orinoco, and begins to plot his vengeance. He wishes to sink the U-Boat by means of any method imaginable to him, and sets about to make the courageous attempt, assisted by Louis, the administrator of the local oil company.

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  • Wuchak

    WW2 tale of revenge in Venezuela?

    Near the end of WW2, a U-boat attack on the Orinoco River, Venezuela, leaves only one survivor, an Irish seaman (Peter O'Toole). After recovering at a Quaker mission, he intends on finding the Germans responsible and wiping them off the face of the Earth. Sian Phillips plays the Quaker doctor, Philippe Noiret a helpful local and Horst Janson the German captain.

    Directed by Peter Yates, Murphys War (1971) is a gritty realistic WW2 flick in the tradition of The African Queen (1951) with the German U-boat crew similar to those in The Land that Time Forgot (1977), albeit without the puppet dinosaurs of course. Like those films, and The Eagle has Landed (1977), the story addresses peripheral events...

    September 14, 2020

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