The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
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1943
2h 43m
NR
English
Drama, Romance, War, Comedy
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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
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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Cast
Major General Clive Wynne-Candy
Edith Hunter / Barbara Wynne / Ange...
Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff
Col. Betteridge
Spud Wilson
Embassy Counsellor
Hoppy
Frau von Kalteneck
Murdoch
Major Davies
Embassy Secretary
President of Tribunal
Colonel Borg (as Count Zichy)
Nurse Erna
Stuffy Graves
Club Porter (1942)
Period Blimp
Club Porter (1902)
Cafe Orchestra Leader
Kaunitz
Indignant Citizen
von Schonborn
von Reumann
von Ritter
Colonel Goodhead
Directed By: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Written By: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
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simonynwa
/10 10 years ago
An epic that details the life of an upper class English soldier over 40 years. The film has a flashback structure that places scenes around major events in three wars without actually depicting anything significant from these events. The central character, General Candy, is initially played as a car More
CinemaSerf
10 months ago
Roger Livesey is superb in this wonderfully colourful depiction of the life of "Clive Candy". We start with his rather undignified seizure at the steam baths by the home guard he is supposed to command and by way of a continuous retrospective, discover just how this man arrived at this embarrassing More
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