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Murphy's War (1971)

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Summary: In the last days of WW2, an Irish sailor who's one of the few survivors of a U-boat attack makes it to a South Seas island, then goes to the ends of the earth with what makeshift weapons he can find to destroy the submarine

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Genres: Drama, Action, War

Country: UK, USA

Directed By: Peter Yates

Written By: Stirling Silliphant, Max Catto

Starring: Philippe Noiret, Peter O'Toole, Siân Phillips, John Hallam, Horst Janson, Ingo Mogendorf

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TCI	User	Score
na	roger1	98	T₁₀
na	flowing	66	T₅
na	Rumplesink	70	T₆
na	paulofilmo	48	T₂
Murphy's Bore
na	Antares	74	T₇
na	McHale	3	T₁
Most of it, especially the ending, comes off stale and unlikely.
na	Bevo52	84	T₇
na	filmaffinity	63	T₅
na	iar80	75	T₆
na	wikke	72	T₃
na	imdb	69	T₇
na	Hopscotch	95	T₁₀
The conflict feels like a WWII version of "Moby Dick", replace the whale with a U-Boat, and the rest of the film is equally cool. O'Toole does a brilliant job adding depth to Murphy with his performance, and Noiret is great as well.
na	Stain	100	T₁₀
Genuinely strange war movie, and in all the good ways. O'Toole and Phillips, so often in movies together, appear in roles quite different from either the "prestige O'Toole" movies or the "wild man O'Toole" movies. And, yes, Phillipe Noiret appeared in movies while he still had hair

Average Tier 6.08 from 13 Rankings