The film-makers who came to Brighton to film the musical Oh! What a Lovely War-fifty years after the last summer of the Great War
A report on six months of filming, from the first day on Brighton pier, to the last day in the ruins of Bayham Abbey.
with Richard Attenborough
"We want to put on the screen the awareness and the actual feelings that the men endured at that time" - Len Deighton
"The only way to have an anti-war film is to like soldiers" - Sir Ralph Richardson
"All wars are monstrous pieces of heroism, idealism, and foolishness, all at the same time" - Kenneth More
"Little boys will play at war anyway"
and Sir John Clements, Maggie Smith, Joe Melia, General Sir Douglas Campbell
(First shown on BBC-1)

Oh! What a Lovely War started a legend in the theatre. In the spring of 1968 Richard Attenborough chose to make his debut as a film director by translating the stage musical to the screen. Tonight's documentary is a curtain-raiser to the London premiere of his film on Thursday.
(Colour)