Oh! What a Lovely War (Original title)
Dates: 1969 (Copyright), 07 September 1969 (Release)Countries: USA, United KingdomDirector: Richard Attenborough
Synopsis: Anti-war satirical entertainment with songs, all set on the Brighton Pier. Based on the Joan Littlewood/Theatre Workshop musical Play, adapted from the radio feature `The Long, Long Trail' by Charles Chilton.
Genres: Musical, Comedy, War
Subjects: World War I, Brighton, Piers, Western Front (WWI), Trench warfare
Dates: 1969 (Copyright), 07 September 1969 (Release)Countries: USA, United KingdomDirector: Richard Attenborough
Synopsis: Anti-war satirical entertainment with songs, all set on the Brighton Pier. Based on the Joan Littlewood/Theatre Workshop musical Play, adapted from the radio feature `The Long, Long Trail' by Charles Chilton.
Genres: Musical, Comedy, War
Subjects: World War I, Brighton, Piers, Western Front (WWI), Trench warfare
Credits
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©: Paramount Pictures Corporation, Production Company: Ltd. Accord Productions, Producer: Brian Duffy, Producer: Richard Attenborough, Associate Producer: Mack Davidson, Production Manager: John Comfort, Assistant Director: Claude Watson, [Screenplay]: Len Deighton, Original play: Joan Littlewood, Original radio feature: Charles Chilton, Photography: Gerry Turpin, Special Effects: Ron Ballanger, Editor: Kevin Connor, Production Designer: Don Ashton, Art Director: Harry White, Set Decorator: Peter James, Costumes: Anthony Mendleson, Title Design: Raymond Hawkey, Music composed and conducted: Alfred Ralston, Choreography: Eleanor Fazan, Sound Recording: Simon Kaye, Sound: Don Challis, Sound: Brian Holland, Military adviser: Douglas Campbell
Cast
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Ralph Richardson (Sir Edward Grey), Meriel Forbes (Lady Grey), Wensley Pithey (Archduke Franz Ferdinand), Ruth Kettlewell (Duchess Sophie, his wife), Ian Holm (President Poincaré), John Gielgud (Count Berchtold), Kenneth More (Kaiser Wilhelm II), John Clements (General von Moltke), Paul Daneman (Tsar Nicholas II), Joe Melia (the photographer), Jack Hawkins (Emperor Franz Josef), John Hussey (soldier on balcony), Kim Smith (Dickie Smith), Mary Wimbush (Mary Smith), Paul Shelley (Jack Smith), Wendy Allnutt (Flo Smith), John Rae (Grandpa Smith), Kathleen Wileman (Emma Smith aged 4), Corin Redgrave (Bertie Smith), Malcolm Mcfee (Freddie Smith), Colin Farrell (Harry Smith), Maurice Roëves (George Smith), Angela Thorne (Betty Smith), John Mills (Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig), Julia Wright (his secretary), Jean-Pierre Cassel (French colonel), Penny Allen (solo chorus girl), Maggie Smith (music hall star), David Lodge (recruiting sergeant), Michael Redgrave (General Sir Henry Wilson), Laurence Olivier (Field-Marshal Sir John French), Peter Gilmore (Private Burgess), Derek Newark (shooting gallery proprietor), Richard Howard (young soldier at Mons), John Trigger (officer at station), Ronald Pember (corporal at station), Juliet Mills (1st nurse at station), Nanette Newman (2nd nurse at station), Susannah York (Eleanor), Dirk Bogarde (Stephen), Norman Jones (1st Scottish soldier), Andrew Robertson (2nd Scottish soldier), Ben Howard (3rd Scottish soldier), Angus Lennie (4th Scottish soldier), Brian Tipping (5th Scottish soldier), Christian Doermer (Fritz), Tony Vogel (German soldier), Paul Hansard (German Officer), John Woodnutt (British Officer), Tony Thawnton (Officer on Telephone), Cecil Parker (Sir John), Zeph Gladstone (His Chauffeuse), Stanley Mcgeagh (1st Soldier in Gassed Trench), Stanley Lebor (2nd Soldier in Gassed Trench), Robert Flemyng (Staff Officer in Gassed Trench), Thorley Walters (1st Staff Officer in Ballroom), Norman Shelley (2nd Staff Officer in Ballroom), Isabel Dean (Sir John French's Lady), Guy Middleton (General Sir William Robertson), Natasha Parry (Sir William Robertson's Lady), Cecilia Darby (Sir Henry Wilson's Lady), Phyllis Calvert (Lady Haig), Raymond S. Edwards (3rd Staff Officer in Ballroom), Freddie Ascott ("Whizzbang" Soldier), Edward Fox (1st Aide), Geoffrey Davies (2nd Aide), Christian Thorogood (1st Irish Soldier), Paddy Joyce (2nd Irish Soldier), John Dunhill (3rd Irish Soldier), John Owens (4th Irish Soldier), P.G. Stephens (5th Irish Soldier), Vanessa Redgrave (Sylvia Pankhurst), Clifford Mollison (1st Heckler), Dorothy Reynolds (2nd Heckler), Harry Locke (3rd Heckler), George Ghent (4th Heckler), Michael Bates (Drunken Lance Corporal), Charles Farrell (Policeman), Pia Colombo (Estaminet Singer), Vincent Ball (Australian Soldier), Anthony Ainley (3rd Aide), Gerald Sim (Chaplain), Maurice Arthur (Soldier Singer at Church Parade), Arthur White (Sergeant in Dugout), Christopher Cabot (Soldier in Shell Hole), Fanny Carby (1st Mill Girl), Marianne Stone (2nd Mill Girl), Christine Noonan (3rd Mill Girl), Charlotte Attenborough (Emma Smith aged 8), John Gabriel