Murphy's War

Genre: war

Year Published: 1971

Creator: Peter Yates

Credits: Cast: Peter O'Toole

Description: Irishman Murphy (Peter O'Toole) is the sole survivor of the crew of a merchant ship, Mount Kyle, which had been sunk by a German U-boat and the survivors machine-gunned 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) Murphy learns how to fly the Grumman J2F Duck floatplane in the most daring way.

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