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Oh! What a Lovely War (1969) The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three

Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)

The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warfare.

Cast:
Florence Victoria 'Flo' Smith: Wendy Allnutt
Harry Arnold Smith: Colin Farrell
Frederick Percy 'Freddie' Smith: Malcolm McFee
Grandpa Smith: John Rae
Bertram Biddle 'Bertie' Smith: Corin Redgrave
George Patrick Michael Smith: Maurice Roëves
Jack Henry Smith: Paul Shelley
Richard 'Dickie' Smith: Kim Smith
Elizabeth May 'Betty' Smith: Angela Thorne
Mary Emma Smith: Mary Wimbush
Australian Soldier: Vincent Ball
Estaminet Singer: Pia Colombo
Czar Nicholas II: Paul Daneman
Sir John French's Lady: Isabel Dean
Fritz: Christian Doermer
Major Mallory - Staff Officer in Gassed Trench: Robert Flemyng
Lady Pamela Grey: Meriel Forbes
President Raymond Poincaré: Ian Holm
Recruiting Sergeant at Music Hall: David Lodge
The Photographer: Joe Melia
General Sir William Robertson: Guy Middleton
Nurse: Nanette Newman
Sir John: Cecil Parker
Sir William Robertson's Lady: Natasha Parry
Chaplain: Gerald Sim
Staff Officer in Ballroom: Norman Shelley
3rd Aide: Anthony Ainley
Solo Chorus Girl: Penelope Allen
Soldier Singer at Chaplain's Address: Maurice Arthur
'Whizzbang' Soldier: Freddie Ascott
Drunk Lance Corporal: Michael Bates
Mill Girl: Christine Noonan
Sir Henry Wilson's Lady: Cecilia Darby
Aide to Field-Marshal Haig: Edward Fox
Heckler at Pankhurst Speech: Bette Vivian
Private Burgess: Peter Gilmore
Private Garbett: Ben Howard
Scottish Soldier: Angus Lennie
Irish Soldier: Christian Thorogood
Shooting Gallery Proprietor: Derek Newark
Seamus Moore: John Owens
Corporal at Railway Station: Ron Pember
Officer at Railway Station: John Trigger
Emma Smith - Age 4: Kathleen Wileman
Stephen: Dirk Bogarde
Lady Dorothy Haig: Phyllis Calvert
French Colonel: Jean-Pierre Cassel
General Helmuth von Moltke: John Clements
Count Leopold von Berchtold: John Gielgud
Emperor Franz Joseph: Jack Hawkins
Kaiser Wilhelm II: Kenneth More
Field-Marshal Sir John French: Laurence Olivier
General Sir Henry Wilson: Michael Redgrave
Sylvia Pankhurst: Vanessa Redgrave
Sir Edward Grey: Ralph Richardson
Music Hall Star: Maggie Smith
Eleanor: Susannah York
Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig: John Mills
Military Band in Brighton: Band of the Irish Guards
Czarina Alexandra: Pamela Abbott
British Officer: John Woodnutt
Emma Smith - Age 8: Charlotte Attenborough
American GI: Roy Beck
Girl Friend in 'Goodbyee': Valerie Smith
Training Sergeant: Norman Bird
Singer: Joanne Brown
Soldier in Shell Hole: Christopher Cabot
Wealthy Young Man: Jeremy Child
Soldier in 'Goodbyee': Tom Marshall
His Father: Ambrose Coghill
Poincaré's Lady: Stella Courtney
Chorus Girl: Jane Seymour
Kaiserin Augusta: Elizabeth Craven
Sergeant in Burial Party: Richard Davies
3rd Staff Officer in Ballroom: Ray Edwards
Policeman: Charles Farrell
President Woodrow Wilson: Frank Forsyth
Nikolai Lenin: John Gabriel
Sir John's Chauffeuse: Zeph Gladstone
General von Moltke's Lady: Ruth Gower
German Officer: Michael Wolf
Berchtold's Lady: Kathleen Helme
Young Soldier at Mons: Richard Howard
Soldier on Balcony: John Hussey
Scoreboard Girl: Mary Yeomans
Haig's Girlfriend: Dolores Judson
Duchess Sophie: Ruth Kettlewell
Soldier in Gassed Trench: Stanley McGeagh
Italian Military Attaché: Anthony Morton
Archduke Franz Ferdinand: Wensley Pithey
Turkish Military Attaché: Steve Plytas
2nd Scottish Soldier: Andrew Robertson
French Soldier: David Scheuer
British Officer's Wife: Alecia St Leger
American Officer: Guy Standeven
Officer on Telephone: Tony Thawnton
4th Scottish Soldier: Brian Tipping
German Soldier: Tony Vogel
Sergeant in Dugout: Arthur White
Salvation Army: Ian Wilson
Haig's Secretary: Julia Wright

Written by: Charles Chilton, Ted Allan, Len Deighton

Director: Richard Attenborough

Production: Paramount Pictures, Accord Productions

Release date: 03 Oct 1969

Box Office: $801,591
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