The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

• 7.5 War
• 1943-07-26
• 163 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

Roger Livesey (Major General Clive Wynne-Candy) Deborah Kerr (Edith Hunter / Barbara Wynne / Angela "Johnny" Cannon) Adolf Wohlbrück (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)

Director:

Michael Powell Emeric Pressburger

Writer:

Emeric Pressburger Michael Powell