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Bookmark this pageHow I Won the War (1967)
Director: Richard Lester
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Dated, maybe, but Lester's gruesomely black anti-war comedy still looks inventive, and manages occasionally to hit home with its blend of surreal lunacy and barbed satire. Concerning the futile mission of a troop of British soldiers in Egypt during World War II, sent behind enemy lines to set up a cricket pitch to impress a visiting VIP, Charles Wood's script, which attacks war movie conventions as much as war itself, is not always well served by Lester's determinedly zany direction; but the performances are well attuned to the single-minded mood of brash bitterness.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Richard Lester
Producer: Richard Lester
Cast: Michael Crawford full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 110 mins
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