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Morituri (also known as The Saboteur: Code Name Morituri) is a 1965 American war thriller film directed by Bernhard Wicki and starring Marlon Brando, Yul Brynner, Janet Margolin and Trevor Howard. The cinematography was by Conrad L. Hall, and the film musical score was composed by Jerry Goldsmith.
"Morituri" is a film steeped in the cynicism of its characters. Crain is ostensibly the hero, but he is motivated purely by self-preservation. Colonel Statter regards his cynicism with contempt and cynicism of his own.
Morituri: Directed by Bernhard Wicki. With Marlon Brando, Yul Brynner, Janet Margolin, Trevor Howard. A war pacifist is blackmailed to pose as an SS officer and to disable the scuttling explosives on a freighter carrying rubber cargo to be captured by the Allies.
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- Action, Drama, Thriller
- Bernhard Wicki
- 1965-09-17
A German living in India during World War II is blackmailed by the English to impersonate an SS officer on board a cargo ship leaving Japan for Germany carrying a large supply of rubber for tyres.
The expectedly intense performances from its big names anchor Morituri’s talky yet tense wartime ticking-clock. Brando’s anxious cunning ever teetering on the cusp of being exposed, opposite Brynner’s disgruntled anti-Nazi captain surrounded by party fanatics and conscripted prisoners.
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