The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

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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  Roger Livesey

  Major General Clive Wynne-Candy
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  Deborah Kerr

  Edith Hunter / Barbara Wynne / Angela "Johnny" Cannon
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  Anton Walbrook

  Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff
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  Roland Culver

  Col. Betteridge
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  James McKechnie

  Spud Wilson
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  Arthur Wontner

  Embassy Counsellor
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  David Hutcheson

  Hoppy
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  Ursula Jeans

  Frau von Kalteneck
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  John Laurie

  Murdoch
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  Harry Welchman

  Major Davies