Life and Death of Colonel Blimp_The

1943 · drama · romance · Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger · Rank Organisation, The · Archers, The · Independent Producers

From Imdb; Portrays in warm-hearted detail the life and loves of one extraordinary man. We meet the imposingly rotund General Clive Wynne-C. 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." Stars; Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook