The ever popular war games. With songs, battles & a few jokes
Satire about the First World War based on a stage musical of the same name, portraying the "Game of War" and focusing mainly on the members of one family (last name Smith) who go off to war. Much of the action in the movie revolves around the words of the marching songs of the soldiers, and many scenes portray some of the more famous (and infamous) incidents of the war, including the assassination of Duke Ferdinand, the Christmas meeting between British and German soldiers in no-mans-land, and the wiping out by their own side of a force of Irish soldiers newly arrived at the front, after successfully capturing a ridge that had been contested for some time.
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Laurence Olivier Vanessa Redgrave Maggie Smith John Mills Corin Redgrave Maurice Roëves Ian Holm Juliet Mills Michael Bates Edward Fox Dirk Bogarde Jean-Pierre Cassel John Clements John Gielgud Jack Hawkins Kenneth More Michael Redgrave Ralph Richardson Susannah York Robert Flemyng Paul Daneman Guy Middleton Angela Thorne Wendy Allnutt Colin Farrell Malcolm McFee John Rae Paul Shelley Kim Smith Mary Wimbush John Owens Vincent Ball Penelope Allen Pia Colombo Isabel Dean Christian Doermer Joe Melia Nanette Newman Cecil Parker Natasha Parry Gerald Sim Thorley Walters Anthony Ainley Geoffrey Davies Fanny Carby Peter Gilmore Ben Howard Norman Jones Angus Lennie Paddy Joyce Harry Locke Ron Pember Marianne Stone Christine Noonan Derek Newark Clifford Mollison Norman Bird Jeremy Child Richard Davies Stanley Lebor Jane Seymour Wensley Pithey Meriel Forbes David Lodge Maurice Arthur Freddie Ascott Cecilia Darby George Ghent Dorothy Reynolds John Trigger Kathleen Wileman Phyllis Calvert Pamela Abbott Charlotte Attenborough Roy Beck Annie Bee Joanne Brown Christopher Cabot Frank Coda Ambrose Coghill Stella Courtney Sheila Cox Elizabeth Craven John Dunn-Hill Ray Edwards Charles Farrell Hermione Farthingale Frank Forsyth Joyce Franklin John Gabriel Zeph Gladstone Ruth Gower Kim Grant Carole Gray Paul Hansard Kathleen Helme Richard Howard John Hussey Dinny Jones Lind Joyce Dolores Judson Ruth Kettlewell Delia Linden Richard Loring Tom Marshall Stanley McGeagh Isabelle Metcalfe Jenny Morgan Anthony Morton Steve Plytas Andrew Robertson Sue Robinson David Scheuer Valerie Smith Guy Standeven Pippa Steel P.G. Stephens Tony Thawnton Christian Thorogood Brian Tipping Bette Vivian Tony Vogel Arthur White Michael Wolf John Woodnutt Julia Wright Mary Yeomans Norman Shelley
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