The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp poster
Director Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Writer Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

Tagline: An unforgettable story of forty gallant years.

Release Date: 1943-07-26

Duration: 163 minutes

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.

Casting

  • Deborah Kerr
    Edith Hunter / Barbara Wynne / Angela "Johnny" Cannon
  • John Laurie
    Murdoch
  • Felix Aylmer
    The Bishop
  • Roland Culver
    Col. Betteridge
  • Roger Livesey
    Major General Clive Wynne-Candy
  • Valentine Dyall
    von Schonborn
  • Eric Maturin
    Colonel Goodhead
  • Ursula Jeans
    Frau von Kalteneck
  • A.E. Matthews
    President of Tribunal
  • Adolf Wohlbrück
    Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff