war film from Peter Yates, the director of Bullitt and The Friends of Eddie Coyle, with a touch of the avant-garde about him, was always going to be an interesting curiosity. Murphy’s War is a charming film with just the right amount of grit. The opening sequence is straight into the melee of an attack, as Peter O’Toole’s Murphy and his fellow crew members are in utter chaos. The Captain of the U-Boat doesn’t want prisoners and Murphy is left the only survivor.