Comedy Music War
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.
Directed by
Richard Attenborough
Written by
Joan Littlewood
Maggie Smith
Music Hall Star
Jane Seymour
Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Ian Holm
President Poincare
Edward Fox
Aide to Field-Marshal Haig
Vanessa Redgrave
Sylvia Pankhurst
Juliet Mills
Nurse
Laurence Olivier
Field Marshal Sir John French
Richard Attenborough
John Mills
Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig
Jack Hawkins
Emperor Franz Josef
John Gielgud
Count Leopold Von Berchtold
Michael Redgrave
Gen. Sir Henry Wilson
Jean-Pierre Cassel
French Colonel
Dirk Bogarde
Stephen
Ralph Richardson
Sir Edward Grey
Cecil Parker
Sir John
Kenneth More
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Colin Farrell
Harry Arnold Smith
Maurice Roëves
George Smith
Michael Bates
Drunk Lance Corporal
Susannah York
Eleanor
Nanette Newman
Nurse
Stanley Lebor
Soldier (uncredited)
Gerald Sim
Chaplain
Richard Davies
Sergeant in Burial Party (uncredited)
Thorley Walters
Staff Officer
Jeremy Child
Wealthy Young Man (uncredited)
Vincent Ball
Australian Soldier
Anthony Ainley
3rd Aide
Corin Redgrave
Bertie Smith
Natasha Parry
Sir William Robertson's Lady
Angus Lennie
Scottish Soldier
Paul Daneman
Czar Nicholas II
Norman Bird
Training Sgt (uncredited)
Paul Hansard
German Officer (uncredited)
Wensley Pithey
Archduke Ferdinand (uncredited)
Derek Newark
Shooting Gallery Proprietor
Norman Jones
Scottish Soldier
Angela Thorne
Elizabeth May 'Betty' Smith
Phyllis Calvert
Lady Dorothy Haig
Peter Gilmore
Pte Burgess
Clifford Mollison
Heckler
Guy Standeven
American Officer (uncredited)
John Woodnutt
British Officer (uncredited)
Robert Flemyng
Staff Officer in Gassed Trench
Tony Vogel
German Soldier (uncredited)
John Dunn-Hill
Irish Soldier (uncredited)
Paul Shelley
Jack Henry Smith
Marianne Stone
Mill Girl
Wendy Allnutt
Florence Victoria 'Flo' Smith
Joe Melia
The Photographer
Frank Forsyth
President Woodrow Wilson (uncredited)
Isabel Dean
Sir John French's Lady
David Lodge
Recruiting Sergeant at Music Hall
John Owens
Seamus Moore
Guy Middleton
Gen. Sir William Robertson
Paddy Joyce
Irish Soldier
Carole Gray
Chorus Girl (uncredited)
John Hussey
Soldier on Balcony (uncredited)
Christian Doermer
Fritz
John Clements
Gen. von Moltke
Ron Pember
Corporal
Steve Plytas
Turkish Military Attaché (uncredited)
Christine Noonan
Mill Girl (uncredited)
Ruth Kettlewell
Duchess Sophie (uncredited)
Anthony Morton
Italian Military Attaché (uncredited)
Norman Shelley
Staff Officer in Ballroom
Ben Howard
Pte Garbett
Charles Farrell
Policeman (uncredited)
Meriel Forbes
Lady Pamela Grey
Harry Locke
Heckler
Pippa Steel
Scoreboard Girl (uncredited)
Dorothy Reynolds
Heckler at Pankhurst Speech
Malcolm McFee
Frederick Percy 'Freddie' Smith
Pia Colombo
Estaminet Singer
Michael Wolf
German Officer (uncredited)
John Rae
Grandpa Smith
Kim Smith
Richard 'Dickie' Smith
Mary Wimbush
Mary Emma Smith
Penelope Allen
Solo Chorus Girl
Geoffrey Davies
Aide to Haig
Fanny Carby
Mill Girl
Maurice Arthur
Soldier Singer at Chaplain's Address
Freddie Ascott
'Whizzbang' Soldier
Cecilia Darby
Sir Henry Wilson's Lady
George Ghent
Heckler at Pankhurst Speech
John Trigger
Officer at Railway Station
Kathleen Wileman
Emma Smith - Age 4
Pamela Abbott
Czarina Alexandra (uncredited)
Charlotte Attenborough
Emma Smith - Age 8 (uncredited)
Annie Bee
Girl Friend in 'Goodbyee' (uncredited)
Joanne Brown
Singer (uncredited)
Christopher Cabot
Soldier in Shell Hole (uncredited)
Frank Coda
Soldier in 'Goodbyee' (uncredited)
Ambrose Coghill
His Father (uncredited)
Stella Courtney
Poincaré's Lady (uncredited)
Sheila Cox
Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Elizabeth Craven
Kaiserin Augusta (uncredited)
Ray Edwards
3rd Staff Officer in Ballroom (uncredited)
Hermione Farthingale
Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Joyce Franklin
Chorus Girl (uncredited)
John Gabriel
Nikolai Lenin (uncredited)
Zeph Gladstone
Sir John's Chauffeuse (uncredited)
Ruth Gower
General von Moltke's Lady (uncredited)
Kim Grant
Soldier in 'Goodbyee' (uncredited)
Kathleen Helme
Berchtold's Lady (uncredited)
Richard Howard
Young Soldier at Mons (uncredited)
Dinny Jones
Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Lind Joyce
Scoreboard Girl (uncredited)
Dolores Judson
Haig's Girlfriend (uncredited)
Delia Linden
Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Richard Loring
Soldier in 'Goodbyee' (uncredited)
Tom Marshall
Soldier in 'Goodbyee' (uncredited)
Stanley McGeagh
Soldier in Gassed Trench (uncredited)
Isabelle Metcalfe
Girl Friend in 'Goodbyee' (uncredited)
Jenny Morgan
Girl Friend in 'Goodbyee' (uncredited)
Andrew Robertson
2nd Scottish Soldier (uncredited)
Sue Robinson
Chorus Girl (uncredited)
David Scheuer
French Soldier (uncredited)
Valerie Smith
Girl Friend in 'Goodbyee' (uncredited)
P.G. Stephens
Irish Soldier (uncredited)
Tony Thawnton
Officer on Telephone (uncredited)
Christian Thorogood
Irish Soldier (uncredited)
Brian Tipping
4th Scottish Soldier (uncredited)
Bette Vivian
Heckler at Pankhurst Speech (uncredited)
Arthur White
Sergeant in Dugout (uncredited)
Julia Wright
Haig's Secretary (uncredited)
Mary Yeomans
Scoreboard Girl (uncredited)
Joan Littlewood

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