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DVD Details
- Director's Commentary
- 3-Part Documentary: Welcome To World War I / The Smith Family Album / Keep The Home Fires Burning
- Language: English
- Subtitles: English
- Rated: G
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 24 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 7, 2006
- Originally Released: 1969
- Label: Paramount
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Dirk Bogarde, John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier, Michael Redgrave, Vanessa Redgrave, Maggie Smith, Susannah York, John Mills, Ralph Richardson & Jane Seymour | |
Performer: | Phyllis Calvert, Kenneth More & Jean-Pierre Cassel | |
Directed by | Richard Attenborough | |
Produced by | Richard Attenborough | |
Director of Photography: | Gerry Turpin |
Entertainment Reviews:
4 stars out of 5 -- [I]t's an intelligent, hugely stylised satire -- beautifully executed, brutally abstract and, on occasion, stunningly perceptive.
Total Film
Rating: 4/5 --
It's a mammoth shame that this film has slipped down the back of the sofa of movie history.
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Total Film
Rating: 4/5 --
Stylised, satirical and ultimately moving.
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Radio Times
Rating: 3/5 --
The huge potential of this all-star vehicle was mainly squandered through a lack of subtlety or irony.
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Empire Magazine
Dedicated, exhilarating, shrewd, mocking, funny, emotional, witty, poignant and technically brilliant.
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Variety
An often too-clever, sometimes moving piece.
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Time Out
It 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.
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The Spectator
Description by OLDIES.com:
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... Now, for the first time, Academy Award-winner Richard Attenborough's directorial debut is available on DVD.
Based on the stage musical by the same name, Oh! What A Lovely War features a stellar cast that includes Laurence Olivier, Ralph 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 became World War I.
Product Description:
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.
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