Film

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

1943 · 2h 43m · War · Drama · Romance

An unforgettable story of forty gallant years.

IMDb

8.0

Rotten Tomatoes

97%

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.

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

Neville Mapp

Stuffy Graves

Vincent Holman

Club Porter (1942)

• Michael PowellWriter · Producer · Director
• Emeric PressburgerProducer · Director · Writer
• Georges PérinalDirector of Photography
• Allan GrayOriginal Music Composer
• John Seabourne Sr.Editor

Release date

July 26, 1943

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

2h 43m

Rated

NR

Budget

$2,000,000

Revenue

$275,472

Genres

War, Drama, Romance, Comedy

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