The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

Release date: Jul 26, 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 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.

WarDramaRomanceComedy

Top Cast

Major General Clive Wynne-Candy

Edith Hunter / Barbara Wynne / Angela "Johnny" Cannon

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

Baby-Face Fitzroy

Pebble

Aunt Margaret

van Zijl

The Nun

The Matron

The Bishop

Mr. Wynne

BBC Official

Secretary

Tommy Tucker (uncredited)

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