Morituri

Morituri (1965) is a black-and-white World War II thriller you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Bernhard Wicki, with Marlon Brando and Yul Brynner confined together on a cargo ship. Conrad Hall shot it early in his career — the tight framing and shadow work on the ship's interiors are something to pay attention to.

Robert Crain (Brando) is a German pacifist living out the war in India until British intelligence blackmails him into a mission: pose as an SS officer aboard a freighter carrying a strategic rubber cargo from Japan to Germany, and disable the scuttling charges before the ship can be sunk. The problem is Captain Mueller (Brynner), a man who starts doubting his new passenger almost immediately.

The film never settles into clean heroics. Brando plays a man who doesn't believe in the war but keeps getting dragged deeper into it, and Brynner matches him beat for beat. Stream Morituri (1965) online on iFILM.