The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
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An unforgettable story of forty gallant years.
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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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Directed by: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Georges Périnal
Written by: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Produced by: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Composed by: Allan Gray
Cast

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
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