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That submarine has two German Naval officers aboard, along with a number of American prisoners and Esther (Janet Margolin), a young German-Jewish woman who has been raped and tortured by her Nazi captors. Complications arise when the submarine meets with the ship to transfer Esther and the prisoners.
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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
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.
Esther, played by Janet Margolin, uses the surname Goddard instead of her own surname Levy in order to hide her Jewish ethnicity. This reflects the real life situation of Hollywood actress Paulette Goddard who changed her name from Marion Levy in order to downplay her own Jewish ethnicity.
Morituri - Full Cast & Crew. In this WWII spy story, a German deserter is coerced by a British Intelligence officer to impersonate a Gestapo official in order to get aboard a German blockade ...
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