Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
DVD9 | ISO+MDS | PAL | 16:9 | 720x576 | 5000 kbps | 8.1Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, English HoH
02:18:00 | UK | Musical, War
DVD9 | ISO+MDS | PAL | 16:9 | 720x576 | 5000 kbps | 8.1Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, English HoH
02:18:00 | UK | Musical, War
The film is based on the stage musical Oh, What a Lovely War!, originated by Charles Chilton as a radio play, The Long Long Trail in December 1961,[1][2] and transferred to stage by Gerry Raffles in partnership with Joan Littlewood and her Theatre Workshop in 1963
Director: Richard Attenborough
Cast: Wendy Allnutt, Colin Farrell, Malcolm McFee, John Rae, Corin Redgrave, Maurice Roeves, Paul Shelley, Kim Smith, Angela Thorne, Mary Wimbush, Vincent Ball, Pia Colombo, Paul Daneman, Isabel Dean, Christian Doermer, Robert Flemyng, Meriel Forbes, Ian Holm, David Lodge, Joe Melia, Guy Middleton, Juliet Mills, Nanette Newman, Cecil Parker, Natasha Parry, Gerald Sim, Thorley Walters, Anthony Ainley, Penelope Allen, Maurice Arthur
Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
It was the war to end all wars - well not quite. For with the ricochet of one bullet, the entire course of human history was changed forever..
Based on the stage musical of the same name, Oh! What a lovely War features a stellar cast that includes Laurence Olivier, Ralp Richardson, John Mills, John Gielgud, Maggie Smith, Vanessa Redgrave, Ian Holm, Dirk Bogarde and Susannah York. By fusing the surreal with the factual, and juxtaposing savagely funny satire with quiet sorrow, Attenborough has created the oddest and most outstanding film ever made about the "game" that was World War One.
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Extras:
- Feature Commentary by Richard Attenborough
A movie 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.
~ Sonya Roberts
Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
