May 9th
How I Won the War   
(GB 1967)                  
United Artists/Petersham Pictures. 107m.

An enthusiastic but incompetent officer is captured by the Germans on the Rhine in 1945, and recollects his previous adventures with his unfortunate platoon.
Totally misdirected lampoon on World War II, where most of the satirical aspects of the story are lost in the surrealness.

Written by: Charles Wood, based on the novel by Patrick Ryan.
Producer/Director: Richard Lester.
Starring: Michael Crawford, John Lennon, Michael Hordern, Jack MacGowran, Lee Montague, Roy Kinnear, James Cossins, Jack Hedley, Karl Michael Vogler.
Photography: David Watkin.
Music: Ken Thorne.