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Overview

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Writers:
Michael Powell (written by) &
Emeric Pressburger (written by)
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Release Date:
4 May 1945 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Romance | War more
Tagline:
A Lusty Lifetime of Love and Adventure in Lavish Technicolor (US Lobby Card tag) more
Plot:
Portrays in warm-hearted detail the life and loves of one extraordinary man. We meet the imposingly rotund General Clive Wynne-Candy... more | add synopsis
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(2 articles)
From 1922-1979: Get Your Film School Starter Pack Now
 (From Rope Of Silicon. 23 November 2008, 10:07 PM, PST)

Actress Deborah Kerr Dies at 86
 (From IMDb News. 18 October 2007)

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Roger Livesey's greatest role more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Roger Livesey ... Clive Candy

Deborah Kerr ... Edith Hunter / Barbara Wynne / Johnny Cannon
Anton Walbrook ... Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff
Roland Culver ... Col. Betteridge
James McKechnie ... Spud Wilson
Albert Lieven ... von Ritter
Arthur Wontner ... Embassy Counsellor
David Hutcheson ... Hoppy
Ursula Jeans ... Frau von Kalteneck
John Laurie ... Murdoch
Harry Welchman ... Major Davies
Reginald Tate ... van Zijl
A.E. Matthews ... President of Tribunal
Carl Jaffe ... von Reumann (as Carl Jaffé)
Valentine Dyall ... von Schönborn
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Colonel Blimp (USA)
The Adventures of Colonel Blimp (USA)
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Runtime:
163 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English | French | German
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Microphonic Recording)
Company:
Archers, The more

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Three-quarters of the Germans in the crowd at the POW camp are "carefully painted and positioned" plaster models. more
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Crew or equipment visible: A camera shadow is visible on the Clive's back as he approaches Theo at the prisoner camp. more
Quotes:
Clive Candy: The Kaiser spoke - and the Prince of Wales spoke ...
Edith Hunter: Spoke about what?
Clive Candy: Nobody could remember.
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Featured in A Profile of 'The Red Shoes' (2000) more

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29 out of 32 people found the following comment useful:-
Roger Livesey's greatest role, 25 July 2003
Author: didi-5 from United Kingdom

I'd forgotten what a good film this was until I watched it on DVD recently. 'The Archers' had such an impressive body of work even a gem can be temporarily out of mind - such was the case with Colonel Blimp while I was catching up with all their other work.

There seem to be three performances approaching greatness in this - first of course, that of Livesey as Clive Wynne-Candy throughout his long service as a soldier to old age and 'Blimpishness', a superb portrayal and very memorable; then Anton Walbrook - brilliant in all his scenes as the sympathetic German who finally becomes reconciled to 'his wife's country'; and finally, in three roles, Deborah Kerr, standing for Candy's ideal woman. There'd be one more film for the Archers before Kerr became established in Hollywood, and she is excellent in her trio of roles in this.

Special mention should go not only to P&P for their tremendous vision and energy, but also the great Jack Cardiff who put such wit and clarity in sequences such as the animal head shots. The film itself is one of Britain's best. I'm amazed to hear it was suppressed in its entirety for so many years, and glad it survived to become the masterpiece it surely is.

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