The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
251 reviews
War/Drama
2h 43m
1943
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...
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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.
- DirectorMichael Powell
- Release26 July 1943
- Genre
- Duration2h 43m
- Budget?
- Revenue?
- Rate251 reviews
- Productions
The Archers, J. Arthur Rank Organisation
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

Robert Harris
Embassy Secretary

A.E. Matthews
President of Tribunal

Theodore Zichy
Colonel Borg (as Count Zichy)

Jane Millican
Nurse Erna

Valentine Dyall
von Schonborn

Carl Jaffe
von Reumann

Albert Lieven
von Ritter

Eric Maturin
Colonel Goodhead

Muriel Aked
Aunt Margaret

Reginald Tate
van Zijl

Felix Aylmer
The Bishop

Joan Swinstead
Secretary

Pat McGrath
Tommy Tucker (uncredited)
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