Oh! What a Lovely War
Oh! What a Lovely War

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A movie about World War I based on a stage musical of the same name, portraying the "Game of War", and focusing mainly on the members of the Smith family 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 Archduke Ferdinand, the Christmas meeting between British and German soldiers in no-man's-land... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Oh! What a Lovely War:

Laurence Olivier
Vanessa Redgrave
Maggie Smith
John Mills
Corin Redgrave
Maurice Roëves

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A movie about World War I based on a stage musical of the same name, portraying the "Game of War", and focusing mainly on the members of the Smith family 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 Archduke Ferdinand, the Christmas meeting between British and German soldiers in no-man's-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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The Spectator - 10/10 by Penelope HoustonIt may seem churlish to praise a film one admires not so much for what it gets right as for what it manages to avoid getting wrong. But Oh! What a Lovely War is perhaps a special case.
RogerEbert.com - 10/10 by Roger EbertIt 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.
Future Movies UK - 9/10 by Mike BarnardThis 1969 classic features some top names from movie history, including the late Laurence Olivier and British greats Maggie Smith and Ian Holm, and impressively staged music hall songs.
Variety - 9/10 by Variety StaffDedicated, exhilarating, shrewd, mocking, funny, emotional, witty, poignant and technically brilliant.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) - 8/10 by Ken HankeRemains the most interesting and daring film Attenborough ever made.
Time Out - 8/10 by Chris PetitAn often too-clever, sometimes moving piece.
Empire Magazine - 6/10 by David ParkinsonThe huge potential of this all-star vehicle was mainly squandered through a lack of subtlety or irony.
User Review - 10/10 by mike eMost poignant war movie I've ever seen, being a musical only adds to the futility of war.
User Review - 10/10 by Rose LThis film is everything a movie musical about World War 1 should be. It trades in the deep dissonance between the brutality of total war and the frivolity of Edwardian culture. A war shatters the carefree summer of 1914 and instead of being appalled that their fun has come to an end, they treat the war like just one more great spectator sport in a summer full of rowing competitions and football matches. The ultimate masculine game. What follows is a brilliant display of dissonance between the world of civilians and officers (played out like yet another music hall show) and the somewhat more realistically presented world of the front line troops. Throughout the film, violence is often highly stylized (particularly in the scenes with a dapper photographer who hands out poppies to characters to symbolize their deaths) but never trivialized, and the absurdity of the mounting casualties is driven home throughout the course of the film. The film's cheery score and cavalcade of well-choreographed singers and dancers do not come off as a sugar coating on a bitter pill, but as a device to lighten the mood just enough to allow the idea of death on a large scale to have as much impact on the viewer as possible without shocking them with graphic violence; the viewer's innocence is repeatedly built up by catchy soft-shoe numbers and sappy ballads, then shattered. The comic relief is used to take us on an emotional journey that finds us desperately attempting to return to the good cheer of 1914 and being cut down every time. In all, as musicals about war go, it avoids being frivolous propaganda, while using the trappings of frivolity to soften its tone just enough to not be sanctimonious. I was quite impressed with it over all.
User Review - 10/10 by I'm El Capitano! Aone of my favourites- had a big impression on me as a teenager which i haven't forgotten

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