The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)

Portrays in warm-hearted detail the life and loves of one extraordinary man. We meet the imposingly rotund General Clive Wynne-Candy, a blustering old duffer who seems the epitome of stuffy, outmoded values. Traveling backwards 40 years we see a different man altogether: the young and dashing officer "Sugar" Candy. Through a series of relationships with three women and his lifelong friendship with a German officer, we see Candy's life unfold and come to understand how difficult it is for him to adapt his sense of military honor to modern notions of "total war."

Emeric Pressburger Michael Powell

Emeric Pressburger Michael Powell

Albert Lieven Anton Walbrook Carl Jaffe David Hutcheson David Ward Deborah Kerr Dennis Arundell Eric Maturin Frith Banbury James Knight James McKechnie Jan Van Loewen Neville Mapp Roger Livesey Roland Culver Spencer Trevor Valentine Dyall Vincent Holman