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How I Won The War (Dir. Dick Lester, starring John Lennon)

Alan Walsh, Melody Maker, 21 October 1967

BEATLE JOHN Lennon reveals a talent for acting and a sense of bitter irony in the part of Private Gripweed in Dick Lester's How I Won The War, a highly comical but bitterly satirical anti-war film.

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