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As a result, a good many British officers in the First World War (and even in the Second) were allegedly shot in the back by their own men. That could make a movie, sure, but would it be an anti-war film? I got the strange feeling from "How I Won the War" that if the officers had somehow been better guys, the war itself would have been more ...
44% Tomatometer 16 Reviews. 61% Audience Score 1,000+ Ratings. Captured by German soldiers, British officer Ernest Goodbody (Michael Crawford) details his history as a commanding officer. While...
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How I Won the War Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Penelope Houston Sight & Sound. TOP CRITIC. The first problem with How I Won the War is...
Jan 5, 2016 · The lossless DTS-HD Master Audio mix splits How I Won the War's original one-channel audio into a 2.0 spread with relatively clear dialogue* and sound effects. Ken Thorne's original score occasionally overpowers everything else, but this doesn't distract for very long.
The film holds a "rotten" 44% rating at the film review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, receiving 9 negative reviews out of 16. In his review for the film, Roger Ebert gave the movie two stars, describing it as "not a brave or outspoken film".
How I Won the War: Directed by Richard Lester. With Michael Crawford, John Lennon, Roy Kinnear, Lee Montague. An inept British World War II commander leads his troops through a series of misadventures in North Africa and Europe.
American director Richard Lester's film How I Won the War is a bizarre, anti-war satire, set in the thick of World War Two. It does not only look at aspects of the ridiculousness of war, and the stereotypes of the war films, but also the ridiculousness of the British.
