Murphy's War
Murphy's War is an Eastmancolor 1971 Panavision war film starring Peter O'Toole and Siân Phillips. It was directed by Peter Yates, based on a novel by Max Catto. The cinematography was by Douglas Slocombe.
Plot
In the closing days of World War II, Irishman Murphy (Peter O'Toole) is the sole survivor of the crew of a merchant ship, Mount Kyle, which had been sunk by a German U-boat and the survivors machine-gunned in the water. Murphy makes it ashore (to a missionary settlement on the Orinoco in Venezuela) where he is treated by a pacifist Quaker doctor, Dr Hayden (Siân Phillips).
More details
| author | Stirling Silliphanta |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Venezuela |
| director | Peter Yates |
| editor | Frank P. Keller John Glen |
| events | aviation submarine warfare World War II |
| genre | adventure |
| keywords | cove crane discover float floatplane grumman j2f duck hiding place how to kill missionary molotov cocktail obsess orinoco pacifist quaker river shoot sole survivor submerge survive torpedo trap u-boat wound |
| musicBy | John Barry |
| producer | Michael Deeley |
| productionCompany | Hemdale Film Corporation |
| publisher | Paramount Pictures |
| recordedAt | Malta |
| theme | submarine war |