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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

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War Drama Romance Comedy

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.

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Director(s): Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

Writer(s): Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

Producer(s): Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

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Keywords

berlin, germany army world war i world war ii british army british empire satire soldier prison camp london blitz boer war home guard

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

Reviews

CinemaSerf

Roger Livesey is superb in this wonderfully colourful depiction of the life of "Clive Candy". We start with his rather undignified seizure at the steam baths by the home guard he is supposed to comman...