|
|
List Price: $14.98Amazon.com's Price: $12.99 You Save: $1.99 (13%)Prices subject to change.
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Buy Now!
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: BRANDO,MARLON
EAN: 0024543114840
Format: Black & White, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 25, 2004
Running Time: 124 minutes
Sales Rank: 24160
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 1965
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
No Description Available.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: NR
Release Date: 25-MAY-2004
Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com:
Marlon Brando plays a world-weary, conscientious objector to all wars in the tense, thoughtful Morituri, an adult drama about wartime ethics and the price of commitment to a cause. Brando plays Robert Crain, a German deserter who escaped the Nazis with his fortune intact, happy to be sitting out the battle in British-governed India. His comfort is challenged when an intelligence official (Trevor Howard) essentially blackmails him into going undercover, posing as an SS officer taking passage on a German ship carrying tons of rubber for munitions. Crain's mission is to deliver the ship into Allied hands, but once he's aboard, he becomes a target of derision by the proud, anti-Nazi captain (Yul Brynner) and suspicion by a handful of Resistance members planning to scuttle the voyage. The dramatic irony in this film by German actor-director Bernhard Wicki is that Crain, who claims to take no sides and believes in nothing worth killing for, becomes a catalyst for a great deal of sacrifice and the underscoring of others' convictions with bloodshed. Janet Margolin has a memorable role as a half-mad, Jewish doctor who puts her life on the line to help Crain, and Brynner nearly steals the show in a tremendous performance as a man who has lost faith in everything. Some spectacular scenes give Morituri a certain electricity, including a complicated, unbroken shot taken (one presumes) from a helicopter that swoops in on the ship from a distance to catch a few lines of dialogue and a bit of action. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Morituri DVD
I absolutely love this movie! Even though it's a little naive and not as spectacular as some of the modern military films. Morituri is a well-done WW2 movie with excellent actors, one of them is my favorite - Yul Brynner. Marlon Brando is also great!
Rating: - MORITURI - 'WE WHO ARE ABOUT TO DIE'
It's 1942 in Japan and Captain Mueller (Brynner) has been assigned to take a German freighter loaded with rubber to France which will keep the German war machine going for at least another 3 months. A rag tag crew has been assigned to sail with him. The ship is a blockade runner meaning that they will try to make it through any enemy defenses and if it looks it will not make it, the Captain is required to blow up the ship. In India, a German citizen (Brando) who escaped Germany when the war began ... Read More
Rating: - A strange movie but very good film-noir
Here we have a non-typical WW II film where a man is recruited by the British authorities to sabotage a German submarine. Marlon Brando shines in this unique role.
On the sub, Jewish shipwrecked (by the sub) captives are brought on board, ironically complicating Brando's task. Yul Brynner makes a great German submarine commander!
There something about this film that personalizes it to the viewer, unlike most others where (unless you were there!) we're outside, looking in. ... Read More
Rating: - Lost 1965 film starring Yul Brynner, Marlon Brando, Janet Margolin
"Morituri" is a worthwhile, though ill-conceived lost film from 1965. It stars Yul Brynner, Marlon Brando, and Janet Margolin who all play anti-Nazi Germans during WWII. Brynner is a sea captain, Brando a pacifist forced by the British to help get the boat into Allied hands, and Margolin as the American-German-Jewish prisoner. It's good to see Janet in one of her few leading roles a few years after David and Lisa.
This scenario has all the ingredients of greatness, yet the film never rises ... Read More
Rating:  - Better than its reputation but not as good as its potential
That Morituri didn't exactly set the box-office alight in 1965 can be gauged from the fact that it's known under at least three titles (Saboteur and The Saboteur - Codename: "Morituri" - which isn't actually the anti-hero's codename!). Taking its title from the famed gladiator's address `We who are about to die salute you,' it's a surprising seabound reunion of veterans of the 1962 version of Mutiny on the Bounty who you'd think would know better and certainly wouldn't even want to see each other again, ... Read More
|
|
