The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
War · Drama · Romance
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.
Cast
- Roger Livesey as Major General Clive Wynne-Candy
- Deborah Kerr as Edith Hunter / Barbara Wynne / Angela "Johnny" Cannon
- Anton Walbrook as Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff
- Roland Culver as Col. Betteridge
- James McKechnie as Spud Wilson
- Arthur Wontner as Embassy Counsellor
- David Hutcheson as Hoppy
- Ursula Jeans as Frau von Kalteneck
- John Laurie as Murdoch
- Harry Welchman as Major Davies