A remarkable film, though its mix of malevolent satire and tough-minded realism is not to everybody's taste. American critics panned it. (In an early scene, one unfortunately gets a glimpse of 1960s high-rises near Brighton Pier.) Otherwise, well worth seeing, especially if you already know something about the Great War. Richard Attenborough directed.

My notes say the "Onward Christian Soldiers" lyric went more like this:

Onward, Joe Soap's army, marching without fear,
With our bold commander safely in the rear.
He boasts and skites from morn till night, and thinks he's very brave,
But the men who really did the job are dead and in their grave.
Onward, Joe Soap's army, marching without fear,
With our bold commander safely in the rear.