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This movie features Beatle John Lennon and Roy Kinnear as ill-fated enlisted men under the inept command of Lieutenant Ernest Goodbody (Michael Crawford). The story unwinds mostly in flashbacks of Lieutenant Goodbody who has lower-class beginnings and education which make him a poor officer who commands one of the worst units of the Army.
Its the end of World War II. British Lieutenant Ernest Goodbody (Michael Crawford) is relating the story of how he won the war to a German officer. His "victory" is despite the unfeeling power mongering of one of his superiors, Colonel Grapple (Sir Michael Hordern). As he tells the story of the primary mission he led of his Musketeers, the mission to construct a cricket field behind enemy lines in North Africa, his troop members, some no longer in the living, tell both of their own preoccupations with other things in life preventing them from being the best of soldiers, and of Goodbodys ineptitude. Some lament the fact that they didnt kill Goodbody when they had the chance. The actual telling of the story is due to Goodbodys troop being caught in a precarious situation in the Rhine Valley, from which Goodbody commandeers his way out successfully. Are Goodbodys actions actually successful?
Michael Crawford
Lt. Goodbody
John Lennon
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Roy Kinnear
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Michael Hordern
Grapple
Jack Hedley
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Robert Hardy
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