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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.
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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
"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.
Novel. Daniel Taradash. Writer. 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.
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Morituri was released 48 years ago... It seems nobody saw it. Or maybe influential but dumb film critics boycotted it. Based on a novel by Werner Jörg Lüddecke, it is a cynical, anti-war movie, made during a time when the US government was in the midst of its war campaign against Vietnam.
