Editing War film (section)

=== Comedy ===
[[File:Shoulder Arms poster.jpg|thumb|upright=0.65|First military comedy: [[Charlie Chaplin]]'s ''[[Shoulder Arms]]'' (1918)]]
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[[Charlie Chaplin]]'s ''[[Shoulder Arms]]'' (1918) set a style for war films to come, and was the first comedy about war in [[film history]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Charlie Chaplin goes to War |url=http://chnm.gmu.edu/episodes/charlie-chaplin-goes-to-war/ |publisher=RRCHNM |access-date=6 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150316071512/http://chnm.gmu.edu/episodes/charlie-chaplin-goes-to-war/ |archive-date=2015-03-16 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=BFI-Thrift>{{Cite web |last1=Thrift |first1=Matthew |title=10 great First World War films |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-great-first-world-war-films |publisher=British Film Institute |access-date=6 March 2015 |date=1 July 2014}}</ref>

British cinema in the Second World War marked the evacuation of children from London with social comedies such as ''[[Those Kids from Town]]'' (1942) where the evacuees go to stay with an [[earl]], while in ''[[Cottage to Let]]'' (1941) and ''[[Went the Day Well?]]'' (1942) the English countryside is thick with spies.{{sfn|Murphy|2005|pp=34–35}} ''[[Gasbags]]'' (1941) offered "zany, irreverent, knockabout" comedy making fun of everything from [[barrage balloon]]s to [[concentration camp]]s.{{sfn|Murphy|2005|p=41}} [[Abbott and Costello]]'s ''[[Buck Privates]]'' (1941) was successful in America,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Strauss |first=Theodore |title=At Loew's State |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1941/02/14/archives/at-loews-state.html |newspaper=[[New York Times]] |date=14 February 1941}}</ref> leading to many further wartime comedies.{{sfn|Erickson|2012|pp=''passim''}}