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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

19432h 43mWar · Drama · Romance · Comedy
directed by Michael Powelldirected by Emeric Pressburger

“An unforgettable story of forty gallant years.”

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7.4 / 10
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Synopsis

General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. But it wasn't always this way. Flashing back to his early career in the Boer War and World War I, we see a dashing young officer whose life has been shaped by three different women, and by a lasting friendship with a German soldier.

Cast

Roger Livesey·Major General Clive Wynne-Candy
Deborah Kerr·Edith Hunter / Barbara Wynne / Angela "Johnny" Cannon
Anton Walbrook·Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff
Roland Culver·Col. Betteridge
James McKechnie·Spud Wilson
Arthur Wontner·Embassy Counsellor
David Hutcheson·Hoppy
Ursula Jeans·Frau von Kalteneck
John Laurie·Murdoch
Harry Welchman·Major Davies