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* GunsDoNotWorkThatWay: The machine-gun and cannon fire that the Germans use against the barge would easily kill Murphy and Louis huddled inside that unprotected boat cabin made only of wood, and fires would be ignited by the cannon shots.
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* GunsDoNotWorkThatWay: The machine-gun and cannon fire that the Germans use against the barge fail to stop Murphy's approach. In reality such gunfire would easily kill Murphy and Louis huddled inside that unprotected boat cabin made only of wood, and fires would be ignited by the cannon shots.
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* ArtisticLicenseShips: Twice in the film the U-boat runs submerged in the river. Submarines never try submerging in rivers as there's rarely enough safe depth for large subs. [[spoiler:The second time the U-boat captain does it, his sub becomes stuck to the bottom, trapping everyone within and giving Murphy a way to kill them all.]]
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* GunsDoNotWorkThatWay: The machine-gun and cannon fire that the Germans use against the barge would easily kill Murphy and Louis huddled inside that unprotected boat cabin made only of wood, and fires would be ignited by the cannon shots.
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Based on a 1969 book by Max Catto, ''Murphy's War'' is a 1971 UsefulNotes/WorldWarII drama starring Creator/PeterOToole, Creator/SianPhillips, and Creator/PhilippeNoiret.
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Based on a 1969 book by Max Catto, ''Murphy's War'' is a 1971 UsefulNotes/WorldWarII drama directed by Creator/PeterYates and starring Creator/PeterOToole, Creator/SianPhillips, and Creator/PhilippeNoiret.
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Based on a 1969 book by Max Catto, ''Murphy's War'' is a 1971 UsefulNotes/WorldWarII drama starring Creator/PeterOToole, Creator/SianPhillips, and Creator/PhilippeNoiret. O'Toole plays an Irish sailor whose ship is sunk by a Nazi U-boat while conducting patrols in the rivers of South America. The submariners murder Murphy's shipmates at the conclusion of the battle, but he survives to seek revenge with the help of a local missionary doctor and the operator of a French trading post.
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Based on a 1969 book by Max Catto, ''Murphy's War'' is a 1971 UsefulNotes/WorldWarII drama starring Creator/PeterOToole, Creator/SianPhillips, and Creator/PhilippeNoiret.
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* LeaveNoSurvivors: After sinking the ''Mount Kyle'', the U-boat crew destroys its lifeboat and then (strictly ForTheEvulz) machine gun the survivors in the water. The only survivors are Murphy (who dives underwater to avoid some barrages of fire and hides behind floating bodies at other points) and Lt. Ellis the seaplane pilot (who is shot down but survives). When the Nazis learn that there are survivors by eavesdropping on a radio message, they set out to kill Murphy and Ellis as well to avoid being prosecuted for war crimes.
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* SinkTheLifeboats: After sinking the ''Mount Kyle'', the U-boat crew destroys its lifeboat and then (strictly ForTheEvulz) machine gun the survivors in the water. The only survivors are Murphy (who dives underwater to avoid some barrages of fire and hides behind floating bodies at other points) and Lt. Ellis the seaplane pilot (who is shot down but survives). When the Nazis learn that there are survivors by eavesdropping on a radio message, they set out to kill Murphy and Ellis as well to avoid being prosecuted for war crimes.
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Based on a 1969 book by Max Catto, ''Murphy's War'' is a 1971 UsefulNotes/WorldWarII drama starring Creator/PeterOToole, Creator/SianPhillips, and Creator/PhilippeNoiret. O'Toole plays an Irish sailor whose ship is sunk by a Nazi U-boat while conducting patrols in the rivers of South America. The submariners murder Murphy's shipmates at the conclusion of the battle, but he survives to seek revenge with the help of a local missionary doctor and the operator of a French trading post.
!!Tropes
* AffablyEvil: Vought, the U-boat captain, gleefully has his men murder dozens of helpless enemy sailors and destroys quite a bit of vital supplies and buildings at the missionary hospital. However, [[AFatherToHisMen he is quite chummy with his men]], lets them engage in ScrewTheWarWerePartying behavior, and WouldntHitAGirl, as he repeatedly spares the life of Dr. Hayden and her companions even though they could testify against him and have clearly been giving aid to his enemies.
* AllGermansAreNazis: The U-boat crew murders enemy sailors and then celebrates doing so while having a mock ceremony to award their captain a medal for the massacre, with the bunch also showing belief in their government back home. This is debatably TruthInTelevision, as the U-boat service did have a high percentage of Nazi Party members.
* BigFun: The helpful, compassionate, and relaxed Louis is the most heavyset character in the film.
* ClosestThingWeGot: Murphy does this to ''himself'' when he wants to use the ''Mount Kyle's'' seaplane to bomb the U-boat that killed his friends, but the pilot (the only other survivor of their ship) is bedridden after being wounded in the massacre up until [[spoiler:he's [[DisposablePilot murdered by the Nazis long before he would have recovered enough to fly the plane]]]]. As the plane's former mechanic, Murphy is convinced that he knows enough about the plane to fly it himself, and after taking a few practice flights, he does go on the mission of revenge himself.
* ContrivedCoincidence: Lt. Ellis, the seaplane pilot, and Murphy, the seaplane mechanic, are the only known survivors of the sinking of the ''Mount Kyle'' and the massacre of the survivors.
* DeathByAdaptation: In the book, [[spoiler:Murphy and most of the U-boat crewmen besides [=XO=] Lauchs (who is solely responsible for the massacre in the book while [[AdaptationalVillainy his crewmates didn't know what he was doing until afterward]]) and one or two dozen others survive the final battle, but here, this doesn't happen]].
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Murphy starts as a sympathetic survivor of a dark atrocity who is trying to defeat a legitimately dangerous and despicable enemy, but he has the FatalFlaw of wrath (which gets worse with each new KickTheDog moment the Germans have), and continues his vendetta even after learning the war is over, [[spoiler:before deliberately killing the Nazis while they are as helpless as he was, and shunning his sidekick Louis for trying to talk him out of it]].
* HideTheEvidence: When the Nazis attack the hospital, Lt. Ellis hides his flight jacket so that the Nazis won't know that the people at the hospital have access to a seaplane (which Murphy is planning to use to attack the submarine).
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: A two-pronged example occurs in the finale. Murphy [[spoiler:kills the Nazis aboard the trapped submarine by picking up a live torpedo that they unsuccessfully fired at his boat with the boat's crane and dropping it on the submarine. However, the explosion also sinks the barge and traps Murphy, who drowns as well]].
* LeaveNoSurvivors: After sinking the ''Mount Kyle'', the U-boat crew destroys its lifeboat and then (strictly ForTheEvulz) machine gun the survivors in the water. The only survivors are Murphy (who dives underwater to avoid some barrages of fire and hides behind floating bodies at other points) and Lt. Ellis the seaplane pilot (who is shot down but survives). When the Nazis learn that there are survivors by eavesdropping on a radio message, they set out to kill Murphy and Ellis as well to avoid being prosecuted for war crimes.
* RecurringExtra: The South American natives who hang around the field hospital and the submariners (besides Vought and his [=XO=]) are mostly interchangeable background characters who may do something important on occasion but rarely get names or dialogue and aren't listed in the credits.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:Louis wades ashore and marches away from the final battle in a fury after learning that Murphy plans to murder the helpless Nazis]].
!!Tropes
* AffablyEvil: Vought, the U-boat captain, gleefully has his men murder dozens of helpless enemy sailors and destroys quite a bit of vital supplies and buildings at the missionary hospital. However, [[AFatherToHisMen he is quite chummy with his men]], lets them engage in ScrewTheWarWerePartying behavior, and WouldntHitAGirl, as he repeatedly spares the life of Dr. Hayden and her companions even though they could testify against him and have clearly been giving aid to his enemies.
* AllGermansAreNazis: The U-boat crew murders enemy sailors and then celebrates doing so while having a mock ceremony to award their captain a medal for the massacre, with the bunch also showing belief in their government back home. This is debatably TruthInTelevision, as the U-boat service did have a high percentage of Nazi Party members.
* BigFun: The helpful, compassionate, and relaxed Louis is the most heavyset character in the film.
* ClosestThingWeGot: Murphy does this to ''himself'' when he wants to use the ''Mount Kyle's'' seaplane to bomb the U-boat that killed his friends, but the pilot (the only other survivor of their ship) is bedridden after being wounded in the massacre up until [[spoiler:he's [[DisposablePilot murdered by the Nazis long before he would have recovered enough to fly the plane]]]]. As the plane's former mechanic, Murphy is convinced that he knows enough about the plane to fly it himself, and after taking a few practice flights, he does go on the mission of revenge himself.
* ContrivedCoincidence: Lt. Ellis, the seaplane pilot, and Murphy, the seaplane mechanic, are the only known survivors of the sinking of the ''Mount Kyle'' and the massacre of the survivors.
* DeathByAdaptation: In the book, [[spoiler:Murphy and most of the U-boat crewmen besides [=XO=] Lauchs (who is solely responsible for the massacre in the book while [[AdaptationalVillainy his crewmates didn't know what he was doing until afterward]]) and one or two dozen others survive the final battle, but here, this doesn't happen]].
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Murphy starts as a sympathetic survivor of a dark atrocity who is trying to defeat a legitimately dangerous and despicable enemy, but he has the FatalFlaw of wrath (which gets worse with each new KickTheDog moment the Germans have), and continues his vendetta even after learning the war is over, [[spoiler:before deliberately killing the Nazis while they are as helpless as he was, and shunning his sidekick Louis for trying to talk him out of it]].
* HideTheEvidence: When the Nazis attack the hospital, Lt. Ellis hides his flight jacket so that the Nazis won't know that the people at the hospital have access to a seaplane (which Murphy is planning to use to attack the submarine).
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: A two-pronged example occurs in the finale. Murphy [[spoiler:kills the Nazis aboard the trapped submarine by picking up a live torpedo that they unsuccessfully fired at his boat with the boat's crane and dropping it on the submarine. However, the explosion also sinks the barge and traps Murphy, who drowns as well]].
* LeaveNoSurvivors: After sinking the ''Mount Kyle'', the U-boat crew destroys its lifeboat and then (strictly ForTheEvulz) machine gun the survivors in the water. The only survivors are Murphy (who dives underwater to avoid some barrages of fire and hides behind floating bodies at other points) and Lt. Ellis the seaplane pilot (who is shot down but survives). When the Nazis learn that there are survivors by eavesdropping on a radio message, they set out to kill Murphy and Ellis as well to avoid being prosecuted for war crimes.
* RecurringExtra: The South American natives who hang around the field hospital and the submariners (besides Vought and his [=XO=]) are mostly interchangeable background characters who may do something important on occasion but rarely get names or dialogue and aren't listed in the credits.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:Louis wades ashore and marches away from the final battle in a fury after learning that Murphy plans to murder the helpless Nazis]].
