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Oh! What a Lovely War

10 Mar 1969
138 min
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Satire about the First World War based on a stage musical of the same name, portraying the "Game of War" and focusing mainly on the members of one family (last name Smith) who go off to war. Much of the action in the movie revolves around the words of the marching songs of the soldiers, and many scenes portray some of the more famous (and infamous) incidents of the war, including the assassination of Duke Ferdinand, the Christmas meeting between British and German soldiers in no-mans-land, and the wiping out by their own side of a force of Irish soldiers newly arrived at the front, after successfully capturing a ridge that had been contested for some time.

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Vanessa Redgrave

Sylvia Pankhurst

Jane Seymour

Chorus Girl (uncredited)

Laurence Olivier

Field Marshal Sir John French

Maggie Smith

Music Hall Star

Edward Fox

Aide to Field-Marshal Haig

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John Mills

Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig

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Ian Holm

President Poincare

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Jean-Pierre Cassel

French Colonel

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Derek Newark

Shooting Gallery Proprietor

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