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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

(1943)

July 26, 1943 2h 43m
74%
TMDB Score

Overview

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.

Michael Powell

Director

Top Billed Cast

RL

Roger Livesey

Major General Clive Wynne-Candy

DK

Deborah Kerr

Edith Hunter / Barbara Wynne / Angela "Johnny" Cannon

AW

Anton Walbrook

Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff

RC

Roland Culver

Col. Betteridge

JM

James McKechnie

Spud Wilson

AW

Arthur Wontner

Embassy Counsellor

DH

David Hutcheson

Hoppy

UJ

Ursula Jeans

Frau von Kalteneck

JL

John Laurie

Murdoch

HW

Harry Welchman

Major Davies