The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
An unforgettable story of forty gallant years.
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7/26/1943Runtime
163 minsOverview
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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A sweeping, humanizing portrait of a man whose ideals and friendships have become casualties of history itself. Powell and Pressburger trace a soldier's journey across four decades and three wars, finding romance and tragedy in the gap between who he was and who he's forced to become.
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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
Robert Harris
Embassy Secretary
A.E. Matthews
President of Tribunal
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