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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
During World War II, German Robert Crain (Marlon Brando) goes AWOL and heads to India to live peacefully. He is discovered, however, by the British Secret Service, who force him to go on an ...
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- Marlon Brando
- Bernhard Wicki
- Arcola Pictures
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.
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- Bernhard Wicki
- Bernhard Wicki
- 25 August 1965
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Set aboard a real German freighter, Bernhard Wicki’s Morituri follows an Allied sabotage of a German ship during World War II. Carrying rubber from Japan to Bordeaux for use on German tankers, the allies intend to not destroy the ship but rather take it over as they, too, need the rubber.
