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The musical shot in the arm!
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.
Laurence Olivier
Field Marshal Sir John French
Vanessa Redgrave
Sylvia Pankhurst
Maggie Smith
Music Hall Star
John Mills
Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig
Corin Redgrave
Bertie Smith
Maurice Roëves
George Smith
Ian Holm
President Poincare
Juliet Mills
Nurse
Michael Bates
Drunk Lance Corporal
Edward Fox
Aide to Field-Marshal Haig
Dirk Bogarde
Stephen
Jean-Pierre Cassel
French Colonel
John Clements
Gen. von Moltke
John Gielgud
Count Leopold Von Berchtold
Jack Hawkins
Emperor Franz Josef
Kenneth More
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Michael Redgrave
Gen. Sir Henry Wilson
Ralph Richardson
Sir Edward Grey
Susannah York
Eleanor
Robert Flemyng
Staff Officer in Gassed Trench
Paul Daneman
Czar Nicholas II
Guy Middleton
Gen. Sir William Robertson
Angela Thorne
Elizabeth May 'Betty' Smith
Wendy Allnutt
Florence Victoria 'Flo' Smith
Colin Farrell
Harry Arnold Smith
Malcolm McFee
Frederick Percy 'Freddie' Smith
Paul Shelley
Jack Henry Smith
John Owens
Seamus Moore
Vincent Ball
Australian Soldier
Penelope Allen
Solo Chorus Girl
Pia Colombo
Estaminet Singer
Isabel Dean
Sir John French's Lady
Christian Doermer
Fritz
Joe Melia
The Photographer
Nanette Newman
Nurse
Cecil Parker
Sir John
Natasha Parry
Sir William Robertson's Lady
Gerald Sim
Chaplain
Thorley Walters
Staff Officer
Anthony Ainley
3rd Aide
Peter Gilmore
Pte Burgess
Ben Howard
Pte Garbett
Norman Jones
Scottish Soldier
Angus Lennie
Scottish Soldier
Paddy Joyce
Irish Soldier
Harry Locke
Heckler
Ron Pember
Corporal
Marianne Stone
Mill Girl
Christine Noonan
Mill Girl (uncredited)
Derek Newark
Shooting Gallery Proprietor
Clifford Mollison
Heckler
Norman Bird
Training Sgt (uncredited)
Jeremy Child
Wealthy Young Man (uncredited)
Richard Davies
Sergeant in Burial Party (uncredited)
Stanley Lebor
Soldier (uncredited)
Jane Seymour
Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Wensley Pithey
Archduke Ferdinand (uncredited)
Meriel Forbes
Lady Pamela Grey
David Lodge
Recruiting Sergeant at Music Hall
Dorothy Reynolds
Heckler at Pankhurst Speech
Phyllis Calvert
Lady Dorothy Haig
John Dunn-Hill
Irish Soldier (uncredited)
Charles Farrell
Policeman (uncredited)
Frank Forsyth
President Woodrow Wilson (uncredited)
Carole Gray
Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Paul Hansard
German Officer (uncredited)
John Hussey
Soldier on Balcony (uncredited)
Ruth Kettlewell
Duchess Sophie (uncredited)
Anthony Morton
Italian Military Attaché (uncredited)
Steve Plytas
Turkish Military Attaché (uncredited)
Guy Standeven
American Officer (uncredited)
Pippa Steel
Scoreboard Girl (uncredited)
Tony Vogel
German Soldier (uncredited)
John Woodnutt
British Officer (uncredited)
Norman Shelley
Staff Officer in Ballroom