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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

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Written, produced and directed by MICHAEL POWELL and EMERIC PRESS-BURGER, the first in a season of distinguished films celebrating one of the most successful partnerships in British cinema. starring Anton Walbrook
Deborah Kerr , Roger Livesey
This neglected British epic, seen tonight on television for the first time in its full original version, traces the military career of Clive Candy , vc, personification of the traditional British gentleman-soldier. From the Boer War through the First World War to the brink of the Second, Candy pursues the elusive virtues of honour, magnanimity and fairness in love and war. Roger Livesey excels as Candy in this masterly affirmation of an ideal doomed by the looming terrors of Hitler's war.
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Contributors

Directed By:
Michael Powell
Unknown:
Anton Walbrook
Unknown:
Deborah Kerr
Unknown:
Roger Livesey
Unknown:
Clive Candy
Unknown:
Roger Livesey
Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff:
Anton Walbrook
Edith Hunter:
Deborah Kerr
Barbara Wynne:
Deborah Kerr
Johnny Cannon:
Deborah Kerr
Clive Candy:
Roger Livesey
Spud Wilson:
James McKechnie
Stuffy Graves:
Neville Mapp
Colonel Betteridge:
Roland Culver
Hoppy DA V:
Id Hutcheson
Period Blimp:
Spencer Trevor
Kaunitz:
David Ward
von Schonborn:
Valentine Dyall
von Reumann:
Carl Jaffe
von Ritter:
Albert Lieven
Frau von Kalteneck:
Ursula Jeans
Murdoch:
John Laurie
van Zill:
Reginald Tate
Major Davis:
Harry Welchman
President of Council:
A. E. Matthews

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