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"The musical shot in the arm!"
The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the five boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warfare.
127 Cast Members
Laurence Olivier
Field Marshal Sir John French
Vanessa Redgrave
Sylvia Pankhurst
Maggie Smith
Music Hall Star
John Mills
Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig
Corin Redgrave
Bertie Smith
Maurice Roëves
George Smith
Ian Holm
President Poincare
Juliet Mills
Nurse
Michael Bates
Drunk Lance Corporal
Edward Fox
Aide to Field-Marshal Haig
Dirk Bogarde
Stephen
Jean-Pierre Cassel
French Colonel
John Clements
Gen. von Moltke
John Gielgud
Count Leopold Von Berchtold
Jack Hawkins
Emperor Franz Josef
Kenneth More
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Michael Redgrave
Gen. Sir Henry Wilson
Ralph Richardson
Sir Edward Grey
Susannah York
Eleanor
Robert Flemyng
Staff Officer in Gassed Trench
