Morituri

Morituri is a World War II espionage thriller set largely aboard a German cargo ship travelling from Japan toward occupied Europe with a load of rubber. Robert Crain, a German living in India, is pressured by British intelligence into posing as an SS officer under the name Hans Keil so he can join the crew. His task is to make sure the ship cannot be scuttled if Allied warships stop it, while the captain, Müller, has orders to destroy the vessel rather than let its cargo fall into enemy hands. The arrival of a Jewish woman rescued from a damaged submarine heightens the tensions among the men on board.

Bernhard Wicki directed the film, his third feature after The Bridge and The Longest Day, from a screenplay by Daniel Taradash. Marlon Brando plays Crain and Yul Brynner plays Captain Müller, with Janet Margolin, Trevor Howard, Martin Benrath and Hans Christian Blech among the credited cast of thirty-seven. Produced by Aaron Rosenberg for 20th Century Fox, Arcola Pictures and Colony Productions, the film had a budget of 6 million dollars and took 3 million dollars worldwide.

On IMDb it holds a rating of 7 out of 10 from around 4,900 votes, while on TMDB it stands at 6.7 out of 10 from a much smaller group of voters. A critics' rating of 7.3 out of 10 from eight reviews places it somewhat above the audience scores.