The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

Jul 26, 1943

2h 43m

★ 7.5

An unforgettable story of forty gallant years.

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.

Genres

War

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

The Archers

J. Arthur Rank Organisation

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Cast

Major General Clive Wynne-Candy

Roger Livesey

Edith Hunter / Barbara Wynne / Angela "Johnny" Cannon

Deborah Kerr

Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff

Anton Walbrook

Col. Betteridge

Roland Culver

Spud Wilson

James McKechnie

Embassy Counsellor

Arthur Wontner

Hoppy

David Hutcheson

Frau von Kalteneck

Ursula Jeans

Murdoch

John Laurie

Major Davies

Harry Welchman

Embassy Secretary

Robert Harris

President of Tribunal

A.E. Matthews

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