Mark Robson's Nine Hours to Rama (1963) depicts Mahatma Gandhi's assassination through his killer's eyes. Certainly an audacious premise, it tries exploring the wages of fanaticism through a thriller format. Save a few minor missteps, it works. Nathuram Godse (Horst Buchholz) is an Hindu fanatic who resents Mohandis Gandhi's (J.S. Casshyap) conciliatory attitudes towards Muslims after India's partition. Flashbacks show Godse's hardscrabble life: he lost his father in a riot, romanced the married Rina (Valerie Gearson), became a newspaper editor and joined a nationalist sect. Godse's ...