Murphy's War Blu-ray Limited Edition (Blu-ray)

WORLD WAR TWO IS ENDING, WORLD WAR MURPHY HAS JUST BEGUNIconic actor Peter OToole (Lawrence of Arabia, The Stunt Man) joins forces with director Peter Yates (Bullit, The Friends of Eddie Coyle) in this blisteringly acerbic, wildly entertaining film about the absurdity of war.During the last days of WWII, the merchant ship Mount Kyle is sunk by a German U-boat off the coast of Venezuela and the sailors machine-gunned in the water. Only Murphy (OToole) survives, making his way to shore where he is nursed to health by Dr. Hayden (Sian Phillips), a pacifist Quaker who runs a missionary settlement near the mouth of the Orinoco River. When Murphy discovers that the U-boat is now hiding further up the river using the jungle for cover, he becomes obsessed with retribution and begins a one man war to sink the German U-boat, no matter the cost.With a script by Stirling Silliphant (In the Heat of the Night, The Poseidon Adventure), cinematography by the legendary Douglas Slocombe (The Italian Job