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Last Name. By signing up, you agree to receiving newsletters from Rotten Tomatoes. You may later unsubscribe. Create your account Already have an account? Email Address. Real Quick. We want to hear what you have to say but need to verify your email. Please click the link below to receive your verification email. Cancel Resend Email. What A Lovely War Add Article. See score details. Rate And Review Submit review Want to see. Super Reviewer. Rate this movie Oof, that was Rotten. What did you think of the movie? Step 2 of 2 How did you buy your ticket? Let's get your review verified. Fandango AMCTheatres. More Info. Submit By opting to have your ticket verified for this movie, you are allowing us to check the email address associated with your Rotten Tomatoes account against an email address associated with a Fandango ticket purchase for the same movie. How did you buy your ticket? View All Photos Movie Info. World War I gets the musical treatment in a series of a song-and-dance vignettes. Throughout it follows the Smith family -- stand-ins for the British working class -- who initially view the war with sunny optimism. Richard Attenborough. Brian Duffy , Richard Attenborough. Mar 11, Ralph Richardson Sir Edward Grey. John Clements Gen. Ian Holm President Poincare. Meriel Forbes Lady Grey. Wensley Pithey Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Ruth Kettlewell Duchess Sophie. Richard Attenborough Director. Brian Duffy Producer. Richard Attenborough Producer. Charles Chilton Writer Play. Len Deighton Writer Screenplay. Gerry Turpin Cinematographer. Kevin Connor Editor. August 25, Full Review…. February 23, Full Review…. January 16, Full Review…. July 18, Full Review…. August 25, Rating: 3. View All Critic Reviews It's a mistake to review "Oh! What a Lovely War" as a movie. It isn't one, but it is an elaborately staged tableau, a dazzling use of the camera to achieve essentially theatrical effects. And judged on that basis, Richard Attenborough has given us a breathtaking evening. I wasn't lucky enough to see Joan Littlewood's original London stage production of "Lovely War," back in the early s. I was in London at the time, but I was a rash youth and went to see the Windmill girls instead. No matter. It's a fallacy, I think, to judge a film on the basis of how faithful it is to the book, or to the play, or to anything other than itself. Something like 90 per cent of the field officers were killed on some fronts. Joseph Losey's film "King and Country" shows us Tom Courtenay as the lone survivor of his original unit; every other man had been killed, and many of their replacements had died as well. This was apparently fairly common. And so this tragic event sank into the bones of the British memory. America, which came into the war rather late and sustained much lighter casualties, could afford the luxury of a "lost generation" in the s. England literally lost her generation; it was dead and buried, and we seem to see it beneath the countless crosses stretching out behind John Mills in the last, stunning graveyard shot in "Oh! What a Lovely War. And yet war films and books have usually not recorded this loss, or the enormity of the stupidity which caused it. Those which have like "King and Country" have done it in microcosm; we care for the Courtenay character, but we do not reflect on the total war. For the original stage musical, see Oh, What a Lovely War! Theatrical release poster. Len Deighton Brian Duffy. Release date. Running time. Cambridge University Press, BBC World Service. The Independent. Retrieved 8 August Retrieved 14 January Design Week. Archived from the original on 19 July Retrieved 6 December The Telegraph. Retrieved 5 June Daily Telegraph. The New York Times. What a Lovely War". Chicago Sun Times. Retrieved 7 October — via RogerEbert. Chicago Tribune. Los Angeles Times. The Washington Post. What A Lovely War". The Monthly Film Bulletin. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2 January The Sunday Times Digital Archive. Banham, Martin, ed. The Cambridge Guide to Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Brockett, Oscar G. History of the Theatre. Ninth edition, International edition. Boston: Allyn and Bacon. Eyre, Richard and Nicholas Wright. Oh What a Lovely War: the show that shook Britain | Joan Littlewood | The Guardian

Share this Rating Title: Oh! What a Lovely War 7. Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Won 1 Golden Globe. Edit Cast Cast overview, first billed only: Wendy Allnutt Grandpa Smith Corin Redgrave Jack Henry Smith Kim Smith Richard 'Dickie' Smith Angela Thorne Mary Emma Smith Vincent Ball Australian Soldier Pia Colombo Estaminet Singer Paul Daneman Edit Storyline A movie about World War I based on a stage musical of the same name, portraying the "Game of War", and focusing mainly on the members of the Smith family who go off to war. Edit Did You Know? Trivia Sir Richard Attenborough got the financial backing for the movie after singing and dancing though the score for "Paramount Pictures'" boss Charlie Bluhdorn , who handed him a check for six million dollars, on the proviso he got six international stars for the movie. Attenborough did better, he got thirteen, most of which did it for the minimum daily rate. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Report this. Add the first question. Edit Details Country: UK. Language: English French German. Also Known As: Oh! Runtime: min. Sound Mix: Mono. Color: Color. Edit page. BBC World Service. The Independent. Retrieved 8 August Retrieved 14 January Design Week. Archived from the original on 19 July Retrieved 6 December The Telegraph. Retrieved 5 June Daily Telegraph. The New York Times. What a Lovely War". Chicago Sun Times. Retrieved 7 October — via RogerEbert. Chicago Tribune. Los Angeles Times. The Washington Post. What A Lovely War". The Monthly Film Bulletin. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2 January The Sunday Times Digital Archive. Banham, Martin, ed. The Cambridge Guide to Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Brockett, Oscar G. History of the Theatre. Ninth edition, International edition. Boston: Allyn and Bacon. Eyre, Richard and Nicholas Wright. London: Bloomsbury. Richard Attenborough. Works by Len Deighton. Declarations of War Only When I Larf Oh! Hidden categories: CS1 errors: empty unknown parameters CS1 maint: extra punctuation Articles with short description Short description matches Wikidata EngvarB from September All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from March Use dmy dates from September So what effect did Oh What a Lovely War have? It helped change attitudes to the first world war. Although we may have read the poetry of Sassoon and Wilfred Owen , we had never before seen popular entertainment express the disenchantment felt at the time by the average soldier. Looking back at the programme, it is also clear that the production was intended as a political provocation. They reached the conclusion that the war was impossible and couldn't have happened. There could not have been so many blunders nor so many casualties. On a purely theatrical level, the show also did a lot to loosen up the formal rigidity of the British theatre. It was active in demolishing the gap between stage and auditorium, promoted the growth of the musical documentary and encouraged actors to take responsibility for research and development: something that bore fruit in the work of companies like Joint Stock. And the pervasive Littlewood irony — the contrast between beguiling form and radical content — was evident in one recently revived musical: Kander and Ebb's The Scottsboro Boys , which explored Alabama racism through the structure of a minstrel show. Melvin is excited about the revival but what really thrills him is that the Theatre Royal has invited schools around the country to devise projects exploring what war means to them now. The results, he says, have been staggering: the best eight will be staged as curtain-raisers during the run of the current show. If she were still around, I don't think she'd be celebrating the Theatre Workshop tradition. Her big question would be, 'What have you done with it? Joan Littlewood. Oh What a Lovely War: the show that shook Britain. Joan Littlewood's pioneering musical about the first world war not only changed attitudes towards the conflict, it remade British theatre. Oh, What a Lovely War movie review () | Roger Ebert

By the time it took over Stratford's Theatre Royal in , its collaborative approach had yielded a string of startling productions that captivated critics and won foreign prizes, while attracting derisory funding from our own Arts Council. If any living person can explain the work's impact, it is Murray Melvin. But, aBut, although he communes daily with the memory of Littlewood and her partner Gerry Raffles, he lives totally in the present. The idea for Lovely War was sparked by a BBC radio programme of first world war songs put together by presenter Charles Chilton, who lost his father to the conflict at the age of six. Raffles happened to hear it. Littlewood saw its theatrical potential, devised a rough scenario, and a script was commissioned. So what happened in rehearsal? But Joan gave the actors a reading list and got us to carry out our own research. Our bible was a book by Barbara Tuchman, August , but we also read countless histories — Haig's Diaries, memoirs by people like Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves. What hit me was a story about a division marching towards the front in an eerily silent landscape, with no birds singing. In the distance, they saw a troop of British soldiers coming towards them, staggering and swaying about as if drunk. As they got nearer, they realised the soldiers had been blinded by mustard gas. Joan had us try to recreate this by marching round and round the stage for three days. You must remember her shows were as carefully structured as a Mozart symphony. Just when we thought we'd got it right, she said, 'We'll have to cut this. It's a revealing story. Theatrical release poster. Len Deighton Brian Duffy. Release date. Running time. Cambridge University Press, BBC World Service. The Independent. Retrieved 8 August Retrieved 14 January Design Week. Archived from the original on 19 July Retrieved 6 December The Telegraph. Retrieved 5 June Daily Telegraph. The New York Times. What a Lovely War". Chicago Sun Times. Retrieved 7 October — via RogerEbert. Chicago Tribune. Los Angeles Times. The Washington Post. What A Lovely War". The Monthly Film Bulletin. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2 January The Sunday Times Digital Archive. Banham, Martin, ed. The Cambridge Guide to Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Brockett, Oscar G. History of the Theatre. Ninth edition, International edition. Boston: Allyn and Bacon. Eyre, Richard and Nicholas Wright. London: Bloomsbury. Littlewood said, in , that "Nobody died on my stage, they died in the film — that they ruined". She wanted audiences to leave the theatre laughing at the "vulgarity of war". The Theatre Workshop developed productions through improvisation and initially the cast would learn the original script but then have that taken away and have to retell the story in their own words for performance. Each member of the Theatre Workshop was tasked with learning about a particular topic, such as Ypres or gas. As the production developed, it also used scenes from The Donkeys by military historian and future Conservative politician Alan Clark , initially without acknowledgement: Clark took Littlewood to court to get credited. Some scenes in the production, notably one on the first time the trenches were gassed, were worked on for many days only for Littlewood to conclude they were too horrific for an audience, [7] and delete them. This was another reason why uniforms were not worn in the production. The musical premiered at the Theatre Royal Stratford East on 19 March to rave audience reaction. Kenneth Tynan 's review in The Observer was titled "Littlewood returns in triumph". The official censor did not grant permission for a transfer to the West End until Princess Margaret attended a performance and commented to the Lord Chamberlain , Lord Cobbold , that "What you've said here tonight should have been said long ago, don't you agree, Lord Cobbold? It was an ensemble production featuring members of the theatre's regular company, which included Brian Murphy , Victor Spinetti and Glynn Edwards , all of whom played several roles. The sets were designed by John Bury. The production subsequently transferred to Wyndham's Theatre in June of the same year. The musical premiered in the United States on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre on 30 September and closed on 16 January after performances. It was seen there by actor and former subaltern Basil Rathbone , who wrote to Charles Chilton that "we were duped, it was a disgusting war". Spinetti also won the Theatre World Award. The original production was performed with the cast in pierrot costumes and metal helmets due to Littlewood's abhorrence of the colour khaki [7] and anti-war feelings. Behind them projected slides operated by projectionist Tom Carr showed images from the war and a moving display what Littlewood called her "electronic newspaper" from having seen one in East Berlin on a railway bridge [7] across the full stage width with statistics, such as "Sept British loss 8, men in 3 hours. German loss nil" and "Average life of a machine gunner under attack on the Western Front : 4 minutes". Separating the performers from the actual events in this way would stop the audience collapsing in tears, [7] and the production features such World War I-era songs as " It's a Long Way to Tipperary ," " Pack up Your Troubles " and " Keep the Home Fires Burning. The audience were also invited to join in with singing the songs.

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Yet it was never released on video, and it took over 20 years of waiting to see it repeated on television and tape it for my collection. It is all the more telling for its simplicity - none of the many great actors taking part delivers a weighty pronouncement on the evils - or otherwise - of war; it is enough to see the awful toll posted on the cricket scoreboard that keeps the daily tally of dead. The ordinariness of the Smith family, who lose every last one of their young men to the conflict, the cheerful patriotism of the proud families waving their loved ones off to war, and the stupid banalities of the officers who daily send their men out to be killed only serve to highlight the absolute futility and waste of WWI and all the wars that followed. Scenes of upper class twits at play while their servants are dying to preserve their privileges; the officers' ball where military leaders try to score points off each other, concerned only with protocol and promotion; and the brilliant black humor of the outdoor church service are juxtaposed with scenes from the trenches as we watch the young men die one by one, all the more harrowing for their cheeky humor and fatalism. Why this brilliant film has been allowed to sink without trace is baffling; I first saw it in the early seventies, and today it still has the same impact. And sadly, it is just as relevant now as it was then - a testimony to our inability to learn from our mistakes. Looking for some great streaming picks? Check out some of the IMDb editors' favorites movies and shows to round out your Watchlist. Visit our What to Watch page. Sign In. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Full Cast and Crew. Release Dates. Official Sites. Company Credits. Technical Specs. Plot Summary. Plot Keywords. Parents Guide. External Sites. User Reviews. User Ratings. External Reviews. Metacritic Reviews. Photo Gallery. Trailers and Videos. Crazy Credits. Alternate Versions. Rate This. The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warfare. Director: Richard Attenborough. Available on Amazon. Added to Watchlist. Watchmojo- A-Z War Films. The Decline of the Movie Musical. Best of Share this Rating Title: Oh! What a Lovely War 7. Use the HTML below. It's a Lovely War four volumes. Vincent Canby of The New York Times called it "a big, elaborate, sometimes realistic film whose elephantine physical proportions and often brilliant all-star cast simply overwhelm the material with a surfeit of good intentions. And judged on that basis, Richard Attenborough has given us a breathtaking evening. You can sit back and enjoy this film on any one of many levels. The songs are good, the lyrics are biting; the staging and costuming blend with the story rather than overshadow it. The acting seems effortless. As one big production number succeeded the other and one perfectly measured and symmetrical tableau faded into the next, I began to feel stupefied rather than touched. The physical production was rolling over the songs, the characters and the vignettes. The Toronto Star received complaints from veteran organizations about the advertisement for the film that featured cemetery crosses and later ran the adverts without the image. It ranked the 16th film at the UK box office in From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about the film. For the original stage musical, see Oh, What a Lovely War! Theatrical release poster. Len Deighton Brian Duffy. Release date. Running time. Cambridge University Press, BBC World Service. The Independent. Retrieved 8 August Retrieved 14 January Design Week. Archived from the original on 19 July Retrieved 6 December The Telegraph. Retrieved 5 June Daily Telegraph. The New York Times. What a Lovely War". Chicago Sun Times. Retrieved 7 October — via RogerEbert. Chicago Tribune. Los Angeles Times. The Washington Post. What A Lovely War". The Monthly Film Bulletin. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2 January The Sunday Times Digital Archive. Banham, Martin, ed. The Cambridge Guide to Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Brockett, Oscar G. History of the Theatre. Ninth edition, International edition. Boston: Allyn and Bacon. Eyre, Richard and Nicholas Wright. London: Bloomsbury. Richard Attenborough. Works by Len Deighton. Declarations of War Only When I Larf Oh! Hidden categories: CS1 errors: empty unknown parameters CS1 maint: extra punctuation Articles with short description Short description matches Wikidata EngvarB from September All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from March Use dmy dates from September

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