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...Richard Lester mixes explosively funny moments with comedy of a blacker sort in a surrealistic vision of war, as a platoon of World War II tommies (including Michael Crawford, Jack MacGowran, John Lennon) attempts to build an officers' cricket field behind enemy lines...
SAME MUD, SAME BLOOD (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). To study the Negro soldier in Viet Nam, Newsman Frank McGee lived for nearly a month in the field with a platoon of the 101st Airborne Division...
...Richard Lester juxtaposes slapstick with hard slaps at the brutality of battle in his surrealistic film about a platoon (Michael Crawford, Jack MacGowran, John Lennon) of World War II tommies hell-bent on building an officers' cricket field behind enemy lines...
...smile on Fridays-but on Saturdays, my kids don't even open their mouths." By next year, those kids may even start smiling on Saturdays. Every member of Oregon State's starting backfield will still be in school, as will all but three of the defensive platoon that held Southern Cal scoreless...
...story is told in film language every bit as wild as the chase itself. Time is a liquid, flowing back and forth. One second is the future, and the platoon's officer (Michael Crawford) has been captured by the Germans. The next is the past, and he is just starting out on his mission. Lunacy is the order of the day: staff officers exchange bubble-gum cards in the heat of conflict. An ex-cavalry colonel shoots his disabled tank. When a man is wounded, his wife abruptly appears on the battlefield. "It hurts," he groans, looking...