The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Released: July 26, 1943Runtime: 163 min
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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Roger Livesey
as Clive Candy
Deborah Kerr
as Angela 'Johnny' Cannon
Anton Walbrook
as Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff
James Mckechnie
as Spud Wilson
Neville Mapp
as Stuffy Graves
Vincent Holman
as Club Porter (1942)
David Hutcheson
as Hoppy
Spencer Trevor
as Period Blimp
Roland Culver
as Colonel Betteridge
James Knight
as Club Porter (1902)
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