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- BFI identifier32965
- Date1967 (Copyright)
- Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisAnti-war tragicomedy, set in 1945. A detachment of men in North Africa are sent 300 miles behind enemy lines to prepare a cricket pitch to impress the top brass when the war is over. (Synopsis)
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Title
How I Won the War (Original)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/9BA6-170B-5569-505D-E4EA-UCategory
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
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16mm Colour Positive - CTA - Combined - Viewing
view all - Scripts / DocumentsScript - Original story: Novel by Patrick Ryan - SCR-9793
Ephemera: publicity - PBS-32965
Ephemera: publicity - PBM-32965
How I Won the War - Black comedy with a strong anti-war [anti-Vietnam] theme produced and directed by Richard Lester based on the novel 'How I Won the War' by Patrick Ryan. Featuring John Lennon in a non-musical role. Screenplay by Charles Wood based on Patrick Ryan novel; cast including: Michael Crawford, John Lennon, Roy Kinnear, Lee Montague, Michael Hordern - RLE-1-7
Script: treatment - Outline 'How I Won the War', typescript, 5 pages, annotated, 8 June 1966 - RLE-1-7-1
Medium and small pressbooks held.
view all - StillsPhotograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00o-7nl
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Photograph: transparency - Landscape - Colour - bfi-00n-28q
Photograph: transparency - Landscape - Colour - bfi-00n-28p
Photograph: transparency - Portrait - Colour - bfi-00n-28o
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Work - 32965 - 1967 (Copyright)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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