The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp(1943)
An unforgettable story of forty gallant years.
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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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
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