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How I Won the War
starring: Michael Crawford, John Lennon, Roy Kinnear, Lee Montague, Jack MacGowran
directed by: Richard Lester

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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786301969512
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6301969510
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: December 05, 2000
Running Time: 110 minutes
Sales Rank: 9976
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: October 23, 1967

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Lester's "How I Won the War"
Excellent film! Not about the John Lennon icon, the Beatles ("I don't believe in . . ."), popular music, or much else in the way of escapist diversion. It reminds me of Spike Milligan's "Mussolini" and " Hitler" "Downfall" works - and there's a reason for this: Lester (a younger cohort of Milligan) was an eight-year old kid during the blitz. For anyone who was in THAT molar-grind of remote-controlled war, how do you process that?
Our lives and bodies will be lucky if the response - from ... Read More

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- I Just Had to Look
"I saw a film today, oh boy
The English Army had just won the war
A crowd of people turned away
But I just had to look
Having read the book."

John Lennon sung that in his song "A Day in the Life", featuring on the Beatles album "Sargeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", in 1967. That same year he also co-starred with Michael Crawford in the film "How I Won the War", based on the book of the same name. It's a comedy of sorts. Don't think it works as well, as ... Read More

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- A corrosive antimilitarist satire
" Absurd " humour against the absurd of war. Director Richard Lester dismounts the british establisment, the cynical lies and fabricated interests hidden under the smoke curtain of the patrotism, the military discipline, the stereotypes of epics and the delirious glorification and manipulative vision that some films do of war with his juvenile and iconoclast spirit and sardonic comicity. Lester uses techniques of strangeness to accentuate the grotesque side of war and the sentiment of alienation ... Read More

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- Not what you expected
If you are looking for the typical Beatles movie you will be disappointed with this one. It has some funny moments but this is a war movie, war is not funny. John Lennon is excellent in this film and the movie was put together well. It takes some thinking to understand some moments, so if you are not into thinking about your movies don't watch it. But if you want to watch a war movie that has great actors and director and an interesting plot then this is one for you.

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- Beyond Lennon
Richard Lester's HOW I WON THE WAR has always been a controversial film simply because of all the publicity that Beatle John Lennon would be appearing in it. Put simply, John Lennon really just appears in it as one of several British soldiers under the command of the narrow minded and naïve Michael Crawford during this WWII anti war film. Michael Crawford is the main character of this film. It is Crawford that undergoes a transition in this film from his military experience and he is the central ... Read More

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