Morituri (1965)

Directors

Bernhard Wicki

Cast

Marlon Brando, Yul Brynner, Janet Margolin, Trevor Howard, Martin Benrath

The story

Robert Crain is a wealthy German engineer and pacifist who fled to India under a fabricated Swiss identity after being conscripted into the Wehrmacht at the start of World War II. He is blackmailed by Colonel Statter of British Army Intelligence into participating in a plan to seize a shipment of rubber, which is in short supply and essential for both sides' war efforts, that will soon be carried by the German merchant ship Ingo from Japan to Nazi-occupied Bordeaux. All German merchant ships are under orders to scuttle themselves to prevent the capture of their cargoes by Allied forces, so Crain's task is to use his engineering knowledge…

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