Captured by Germans, who announce the obligatory "For you, ze war is over", to which Oliver Reed responds "Thank God for that", setting the tone for WWII comedy-drama, in which Reed bonds with cute elephant. Written by Clement and La Frenais, from a story by Winner and Tom Wright. Michael J Pollard is on quirky form and Robert Paynter catches nice German and Austrian locations (often with a powerful zoom lens) to Francis Lai's tunes.
Fashionable anti-war bits, e.g. Pollard's resistance force has annihilated a German platoon carrying tins of corned beef .
With Wolfgang Preiss, John Alderton, Helmuth Lohner, Peter Carsten, Karin Baal, Aida (the elephant).
Editor Peter Austen-Hunt is not editor / director Peter Hunt, who would have been busy making OHMSS at the time.
I was relieved it didn't have one of those fashionably downbeat endings.
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