Rent How I Won the War (1967)
2.9 of 5 from 77 ratings
1h 46min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- While Lieutenant Goodbody (Michael Crawford) lacks in experience, he's desperately trying to make up for in enthusiasm. And when he's ordered to build a cricket playing field in the wastelands of North Africa - 100 miles behind enemy lines - he's determined to succeed... even if it kills most of his men. Abandoned by his superiors, betrayed by his inferiors and finally captured by Nazis, it may take more than his unrelenting optimism to win the day... like some hilariously good luck!
- Actors:
- Michael Crawford, John Lennon, Roy Kinnear, Lee Montague, Jack MacGowran, Michael Hordern, Jack Hedley, Karl Michael Vogler, Ronald Lacey, James Cossins, Ewan Hooper, Alexander Knox, Robert Hardy, Sheila Hancock, Charles Dyer, Bill Dysart, Paul Daneman, Peter Graves, Jack May, Richard Pearson
- Directors:
- Richard Lester
- Producers:
- Richard Lester
- Writers:
- Patrick Ryan, Charles Wood
- Studio:
- MGM
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Classics, Comedy
- Collections:
- A History of Cricket Films, Films & TV by topic, Richard Attenborough: A Centenary Special Instant Expert's Guide, The Beatles in Film, The Golden Age of British Pop Musicals, A Brief History of Film..., The Instant Expert's Guide, The Instant Expert's Guide to: Robert Altman
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 20/05/2019
- Run Time:
- 111 minutes
- Languages:
- English LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.77:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Animated Genesis (1952, 22 mins) and A Short Vision (1956, 7 mins): stylish, striking outstanding anti-war animations
- Head Rag Hop (1970, 3 mins): bold jazz-soundtracked Pop-art abstraction
- Plod (1971, 21 mins): long thought lost, this absurdist anti-authoritarian fusion of poetry and pop music was shot on the streets of Liverpool, and stars supreme sound-satirists The Scaffold Trailers from Hell: Allan Arkush on THE KNACK... and how to get it (1965/2014, 4 mins) and John Landis on The Bed Sitting Room (1969/2014, 4 mins)
- Richard Lester in Conversation with Steven Soderbergh (1999, 88 mins, audio only): the director discusses his career in an interview recorded at the NFT
- Feature Commentary by Richard Lester authority Neil Sinyard
