Maggie Smith: Oh! What a Lovely War Musical comedy

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144 minutes Directed by Richard Attenborough

Starring Ralph Richardson, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Kenneth More, John Clements, Ian Holm, Meriel Forbes, Wensley Pithey, Ruth Kettlewell, Paul Daneman, Corin Redgrave, Pamela Abbott, Maggie Smith, Michael Redgrave, Juliet Mills, Susannah York, Dirk Bogarde, Cecil Walker, Thorley Walters, Guy Middleton, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Flemyng, Mary Wimbush, Colin Farrell, Maurice Roëves, Paul Shelley, Malcolm McFee.

World War I is given the musical treatment, told in a series of a song-and-dance vignettes. Throughout we follow the Smith family, stand-ins for the British working class, who initially view the war with sunny optimism. But, after the Smith boys Jack[C26], Freddy[C27], Harry[C24]and George[C25]witness the reality of trench warfare, their illusions are inevitably shattered, and the best they can hope for is survival.