Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)

6th May at 7pm
Doors: at 6pm
Director: Richard Attenborough

Genre: World War 1 musical drama
Runtime: 2 hours 40 minutes 
Starring: John Mills, Michael Redgrave, John Gielgud, Maggie Smith, Corin Redgrave, Juliet Mills

Certificate: PG

Synopsis: Adapted from Joan Littlewood’s 1963 stage musical of the same name (itself a reworking of Charles Chilton’s 1961 radio play ‘The Long, Long Trail’) ‘Oh! What A Lovely War’ restages the events of the Great War. As the film traces the progression of the conflict  from the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in 1914 to the Armistice of November 1918, it intertwines the fortunes of the everyman Smith family with the performances of popular wartime music.