The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

March. 29,1945      NR
Rating:
8
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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 as  Major General Clive Wynne-Candy
Deborah Kerr as  Edith Hunter / Barbara Wynne / Angela "Johnny" Cannon
Adolf Wohlbrück 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

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