Directed by:
Richard AttenboroughScreenplay:
Len DeightonCinematography:
Gerry TurpinComposer:
Alfred RalstonCast:
Corin Redgrave, Maurice Roëves, Vincent Ball, Robert Flemyng, Ian Holm, Nanette Newman, Cecil Parker, Natasha Parry, Thorley Walters, Edward Fox, Carole Gray (more)VOD (1)
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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." (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Corin Redgrave
UK
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Maurice Roëves
UK
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Vincent Ball
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Robert Flemyng
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Ian Holm
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Nanette Newman
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Cecil Parker
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Natasha Parry
UK
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Thorley Walters
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Edward Fox
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Carole Gray
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Jane Seymour
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Pippa Steel
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Andrew Robertson
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Dirk Bogarde
UK
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Jean-Pierre Cassel
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John Gielgud
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Jack Hawkins
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Kenneth More
UK
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Laurence Olivier
UK
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