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 the 1969 novel by Max Catto. The film's cinematographer was Douglas Slocombe.
Plot
In the closing days of World War II, Irish crewman Murphy is the sole survivor of the crew of merchant ship Mount Kyle, which had been sunk by a German U-boat and the survivors machine-gunned in the water. Murphy reaches the shore and finds a missionary settlement on the Orinoco in Venezuela, where he is treated by the pacifist Quaker Dr. Hayden.
More details
| author | Stirling Silliphant |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Venezuela |
| director | Peter Yates |
| editor | Frank P. Keller John Glen |
| events | aviation submarine warfare World War II |
| genre | adventure |
| keywords | cove crane 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 war crimes wound |
| musicBy | John Barry |
| producer | Michael Deeley |
| productionCompany | Hemdale Film Corporation |
| publisher | Paramount Pictures |
| recordedAt | Malta |
| theme | submarine war |