The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
1943 · Feature film · 163 min · dir. Michael Powell
An unforgettable story of forty gallant years.
- War
- Drama
- Romance
Synopsis
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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Details
- Director
- Michael Powell
- Writer
- Michael Powell
- Composer
- Allan Gray
- Cinematography
- Georges Périnal
- Studio
- The Archers, J. Arthur Rank Organisation
- Released
- 1943-07-26
- Running time
- 163 minutes
Cast & crew
Michael Powell Director
Roger Livesey
Deborah Kerr
Anton Walbrook
Roland Culver
James McKechnie
Arthur Wontner
David Hutcheson
Ursula Jeans
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · One of the Best Movies on the Site!!! · otisfiend · 2012-07-09
This is a serious color movie made in England during the middle of WW2. If you liked Foyle's War, you will probably like this movie. It is the story of the life of British career soldier Clive Candy. Candy falls in love with Deborah Kerr's character while in Germany. He fights a duel with a German officer and they both end up in the hospital recovering. He becomes friends with the German Officer and stays friends with him through WW1 and into WW2. The German officer gets the girl and Candy spends the rest of his life looking for a girl just like the one that got away. Clive struggles with the…
★★★★★ · Without doubt, one of the best films of all time · Carlomagno · 2012-07-28
Intensely moving, in beautiful Technicolor, this follows the life of a British army officer, Clive Candy (Roger Livesey), from the Boer War to World War 2, recording both his search for love and the sad fate of Germany over that time. Utterly honest, utterly fearless, game for any adventure and not terribly bright, his decency, courage and initiative epitomise the English virtues which are celebrated in the film, virtues largely shared with Theo (Anton Walbrook), the German cavalry officer who becomes his dearest friend. Germany, however, which had taken a high moral tone over Britain’s…
