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How
I Won the War
 Film
/ 1967 / MGM/UA / 110 min.
Maverick A HARD DAY'S NIGHT and
HELP! director Richard Lester
recruited John Lennon (in his
first solo acting gig) for this
wildly surreal satire on war
movies, featuring Michael Crawford
(THE KNACK) as a blissfully
unaware idiot charged with
building a cricket pitch behind
enemy lines during World War II.
Although set in the 1940's, HOW I
WON THE WAR couldn't be more 60's
in tone, featuring abrupt time
shifts, jump cutting and Lester's
patented brand of biting slapstick
humor. With Jack MacGowran.
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