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:''For the novel by Gary Paulsen, see Murphy's War (novel)'' ''Murphy's War'' is a 1971 war film starring Peter O'Toole and Siân Phillips. It was directed by Peter Yates and, while it has much in common with ''The African Queen'', it is based on a novel by Max Catto. The cinematography was by Douglas Slocombe. ''Murphy's War'' set in South America, in the backwaters of the global conflict, pits a stubborn, driven survivor of a sunken ship who seeks retribution for both himself and his fallen comrades. In a battle of wits with a German submarine commander, the survivor realizes he must make the ultimate sacrifice. ==Plot== In the closing days of World War II, Irishman Murphy (Peter O'Toole) is the sole survivor of the crew of a merchant ship, ''Mount Kyle'', which has been sunk by a German U-boat, which then machine-gunned the survivors in the water. Murphy makes it ashore (to a missionary settlement on the Orinoco in Venezuela) where he is treated by a pacifist Quaker doctor, Dr Hayden (Siân Phillips). When he discovers the U-boat is hiding further up river, under the cover of the jungle, he sets about obsessively plotting his revenge to sink it by any means, including using a surviving Grumman J2F Duck floatplane from the ''Mount Kyle''. The floatplane had been recovered, the wounded pilot later being shot dead in his hospital bed by the U-boat captain, in order to preserve the secret of the sub's location and, presumably, its action in shooting survivors in the water. Murphy learns how to fly the aircraft in the most daring way, getting it out on the choppy waters of the river and discovering how the controls work by trial and error. Murphy soon finds the U-boat's hiding place and attempts to bomb it using home-made Molotov cocktail bombs, an attempt which fails. Meanwhile, word has come that Germany has surrendered, but Murphy is obsessed with revenge and makes plans to ram the U-boat with a floating crane owned by the friendly Frenchman Louis (Philippe Noiret). This also fails as the U-boat dives under him. However, the dived U-boat becomes stuck in a mud bank. Murphy uses the crane to recover an unexploded torpedo fired earlier from the U-boat and drops it on the trapped crew, killing them. Murphy is also killed, as the explosion from the torpedo causes the crane jib to pin him to the deck as the floating crane sinks to the river bed. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Murphy's War」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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