Morituri
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| Morituri (The Saboteur) | |
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| Directed by | Bernhard Wicki |
| Produced by | Aaron Rosenberg |
| Written by | Daniel Taradash |
| Starring | Marlon Brando Yul Brynner Janet Margolin Trevor Howard |
| Music by | Jerry Goldsmith |
| Cinematography | Conrad L. Hall |
| Editing by | Joseph Silver |
| Distributed by | Twentieth Century-Fox |
| Release date(s) | 1965 |
| Running time | 123 min. |
| IMDb profile | |
- For the 1948 German film see Morituri (1948 film)
Morituri (also known as The Saboteur and Code Name Morituri) is a 1965 film about Robert Crain, a German pacifist living in India during the Second World War. He is blackmailed by the Allies into using his demolition expertise to cripple a Nazi ship carrying rubber from Japan, in the hope of recovering it.
The film stars Marlon Brando, Yul Brynner, Janet Margolin and Trevor Howard. It was directed by Bernhard Wicki.
It was nominated for two Oscars in the 39th Academy Awards (1966), for best black-and-white cinematography and best black-and-white costume design.
The film did not do well on its original release, probably at least in part because few people understood its title. In an attempt to be more commercial, the film was reissued as "Saboteur: Code Name Morituri".
The title "Morituri" is the plural of a Latin word meaning "about to die". Roman gladiators in the arena would begin their battles with "Morituri te salutamus" or "Morituri te salutant" (We/They who are about to die salute you).
