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How I Won the War

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How I Won the War
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NR,1hr 51min
Genre:
Comedy
Released:
January 1, 1967
Director:
Richard Lester
Distributor:
MGM
Starring:
Michael Crawford, John Lennon, Roy Kinnear  ...more
Synopsis: Among the first of the late 60s anti-war films that reflected growing concern over the Vietnam War, How I Won the War takes a cold, dark look at the Good War, World War II. In adapting Patrick Ryan's 1963 novel, screenwriter Charles Wood and director Richard Lester offered a narrative fractured by characters making side comments to the camera, stylized cinematography, inserts of newsreel war footage, and plenty of absurdist humor and slapstick. Ernest Goodbody (Michael Crawford) is a bumbling British ... Full Synopsis
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Tom Wiener, AMG Review
Director Richard Lester's first "serious" film, coming after the successes of his two Beatles musical comedies, hearkens back to his association with The Goon Show, and his first short, The Running Jumping Standing Still Film. It's filled with literate, densely allusive dialogue and sight gags that leave no sacred cow alive. Lester and screenwriter Charles Wood not only take on the most holy of modern ... Full Review
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Michael Crawford
Lt. Ernest Goodbody
John Lennon
Gripweed
Roy Kinnear
Clapper
Lee Montague
Sgt. Transom
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