Fresh
Maybe the most wonderfully British movie ever made.
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
An unforgettable story of forty gallant years.
1943 · 2h 43m · Approved
Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Directed by
Michael Powell
,
Emeric Pressburger
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Michael Powell Director
- Emeric Pressburger Director
- Roger Livesey as Major General Clive Wynne-Candy
- Deborah Kerr as Edith Hunter
- Anton Walbrook 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 Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
97%
Tomatometer
Fresh
A 1943 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger collaboration so unambiguously satirizing the military mind-set that Prime Minister Winston Churchill tried to have it banned.
J. Hoberman, Village Voice
Fresh
The movie looks past the fat, bald military man with the walrus moustache, and sees inside, to an idealist and a romantic. To know him is to love him.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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