Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came (1970)

Original title

Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?

Directed by

Hy Averback

Genre

comedy drama

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 53m

Rated

PG

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of World War II veterans have mixed reactions to the modern US Army. The film blends comedy and drama as it shows their personal conflicts and nostalgia.

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What happens

Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came (also known as War Games, Old Soldiers Never) is a 1970 American drama-comedy film directed by Hy Averback, produced by Fred Engel, and starring Brian Keith, Don Ameche, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Suzanne Pleshette, Ivan Dixon, and Pamela Britton. The plot is a mixture of comic and dramatic elements and concerns the reactions of a number of World War II veterans to the contemporary US Army. The title is derived from an American antiwar slogan from the hippie subculture during the Vietnam War era, popularized by Charlotte E. Keyes in her 1966 article for McCall's magazine titled "Suppose They Gave a War and No One Came". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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