Lovely primer on WWI

[g koch]

Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064754/

Lengthy segment with khaki clad Highlanders and the 1914 Christmas Truce.

One of the great anti-war movies.

Finally out on DVD.

[auld argonian]

I was always a fan of the stage piece that the film was based on:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh!_What_a_Lovely_War

The American TV host Jack Parr had some of the original cast members on his program a couple of times back in the '60's. I distinctly remember Victor Spinetti, who later showed up in the movie HELP! as the mad scientist out to get the ring from Ringo's finger so that he could use it to conquer the world, as a Sargeant Major giving totally unintelligible commands.

The show still gets produced once in a while and the original stage instructions to perform it in the Pierrot costumes are usually observed.

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[Coemgen]

Sounds like an interesting movie. I'll have to see it some time.