Murphy's War

This unsatisfying war adventure is worth watching only for the central performances of Peter O'Toole as Murphy, an Irish seaman with a vendetta against a German U-boat; Sian Phillips (O'Toole's real-life wife at the time) as Hayden, a doctor who nurses Murphy back to health; and Philippe Noiret as the French engineer who saves Murphy's life. In the final days of WW II Murphy is a member of the crew of an armed British merchant ship that is sunk off the coast of Venezuela by a German U-boat. The seamen who survive the initial attack, floundering helplessly in the water, are mercilessly machine-gunned to death by the U-boat's commander, but Murphy survives and eventu...