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| Category | Documentary DVDs, Music Video Movies, Musical Videos, War, G-Rated, Satire, Musical Sequences, Farce, World War I | | Starring | Maggie Smith, John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier, Vanessa Redgrave, John Mills, Susannah York, Ralph Richardson, Dirk Bogarde, Michael Redgrave, Kenneth More, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Phyllis Calvert, John Clements | | Director | Richard Attenborough | | Producer | Richard Attenborough | | Source Writer | Joan Littlewood |
Soundtrack English; English Subtitles; Director's Comments; Amaray Case Legendary British director Sir Richard Attenborough (GANDHI, CRY FREEDOM) made his directorial debut with the scathingly satirical antiwar musical OH! WHAT A LOVELY WAR. Based on Joan Littlewood's 1963 stage play, the film reimagines the tragic conflagration of World War I as a macabre amusement park in which ghastly images of war's futility--such as generals playing leapfrog on the battlefield while their soldiers die around them--are set to farcical musical numbers like "The Bells of Hell" and "Hanging on the Old Barbed Wire." Attenborough assembled a virtual who's-who of iconic British thespians--including Dirk Bogarde, John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier, Michael Redgrave, Ralph Richardson, and Maggie Smith--to enact the masterful pacifist diatribe that was seen as a thinly veiled commentary on the Vietnam War at the time of its 1969 premiere--and remains just as timely and relevant at its 2006 re-release. Oh! What A Lovely War Reviews: 4 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t's an intelligent, hugely stylised satire -- beautifully executed, brutally abstract and, on occasion, stunningly perceptive."-- Ceri Thomas, Total Film Oh! What A Lovely War | List Price | $14.98 (You save $4.49) | | Studio | Paramount Home Entertainment | | Orig Year | 1969 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  13618  | | CD Universe Part number | 7281409 | | Catalog number | 69014 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Nov 07, 2006 | | Rating | G (MPAA) | | Also Known As | Oh What a Lovely War | | Running Time | 144 Minutes | | Additional Info | Widescreen; Collector's Edition; Special Edition; Subtitled | | Movie Details | Color; Widescreen; Collector's Edition; Special Edition; Subtitled; Special Collector's Edition |
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