Oh! What A Lovely War1969
Oh! What A Lovely War (1969)
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Cast
as Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig
as Music Hall Star
as Stephen
as Sylvia Pankhurst
as Sir Edward Grey
as Lady Grey
as Archduke Franz Ferdinand
as Duchess Sophie
as President Poincare
as Count Berchtold
as Kaiser Wilhelm II
as Gen. von Moltke
as Czar Nicholas II
as Czarina
as Poincare's Lady
as Berchtold's Lady
as Von Moltke's Lady
as Kaiserin
as The Photographer
as Italian Military Attache
as Turkish Military Attache
as Emperor Franz Josef
as Soldier on Balcony
as Dickie Smith
as Mary Smith
as Jack Smith
as Flo Smith
as Grandpa Smith
as Emma Smith at Age 4
as Bertie Smith
as Freddie Smith
as Harry Smith
as George Smith
as Betty Smith
as His Secretary
as Staff Officer
as French Colonel
as French Soldier
as German Officer
as Wealthy Young Man
as Staff Officer
as Staff Officer
as His Father
as Solo Chorus Girl
as Chorus Girl
as Chorus Girl
as Chorus Girl
as Chorus Girl
as Chorus Girl
as Chorus Girl
as Chorus Girl
as Recruiting Sergeant
as Gen. Sir Henry Wilson
as Field Marshal Sir John French
as Pvt. Burgess
as 2nd Mill Girl
as Shooting Gallery Proprietor
as Young Soldier at Mons
as Officer at Station
as Corporal at Station
as Nurses at Station
as Nurses at Station
as Eleanor
as Fritz
as German Soldier
as German Officer
as British Officer
as Officer on Telephone
as Sir John
as Sir John French's Lady
as Gen. Sir William Robertson
as His Lady
as Sir Henry Wilson's Lady
as Lady Haig
as `Whizzbang' Soldier
as Aide
as Aide
as Irish Soldier
as Irish Soldier
as Irish Soldier
as Irish Soldier
as Irish Soldier
as Heckler
as Heckler
as Heckler
as Heckler
as Heckler
as Drunken Lance Corporal
as Policeman
as Estaminet Singer
as Australian Soldier
as 3rd Aide
as Chaplain
as Soldier Singer in Church Parade
as Sergeant in Burial Party
as Sergeant in Dugout
as Soldier in Shell Hole
as Singer
as Woodrow Wilson
as Nikolai Lenin
Critic Reviews for Oh! What A Lovely War
All Critics (14) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (11) | Rotten (3)
It is an elaborately staged tableau, a dazzling use of the camera to achieve essentially theatrical effects. And judged on that basis, Richard Attenborough has given us a breathtaking evening.
The huge potential of this all-star vehicle was mainly squandered through a lack of subtlety or irony.
An often too-clever, sometimes moving piece.
[Attenborough] has chosen to make a big, elaborate, sometimes realistic film whose elephantine physical proportions and often brilliant all-star cast simply overwhelm the material with a surfeit of good intentions.
Dedicated, exhilarating, shrewd, mocking, funny, emotional, witty, poignant and technically brilliant.
It wears a heart so bleedingly on its sleeve one is almost blackmailed into praising it.
Audience Reviews for Oh! What A Lovely War
A war film unlike any other.
Super Reviewer
A strange and interesting Great War film that presents the conflict as, among other things, a garish seaside carnival to which everyone wanted a ticket. More than many films I've seen based on plays, this one incorporates elements of staging you'd expect from the theatre without any ill effects; in some scenes, it's like there's a camera in the theatre and you can see literal set pieces, while others (increasingly, as the film goes on) immerse you in the action you'd need to mostly imagine were you in a theatre. I also found in places that the film's sense of the absurd (if not its hilarity) rivalled that of Monty Python. Do we call it a satire? I think so... but its project of laying bare the conflict's human cost and its deference to the symbolic value of the poppy and the increasingly fatalistic songs of the soldiers is worth noting, too. In all it's not an overly exciting movie to watch, but it's a rich and layered document that ought to survive.
Super Reviewer
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