

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
An unforgettable story of forty gallant years.
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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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $2M
- Box office
- $275.5K
- Language
- English
- berlin, germany
- army
- world war i
- world war ii
- british army
- british empire
- satire
- soldier
- prison camp
- london blitz
- boer war
- home guard
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- Theatrical (limited)NRNew York City, New York29 Mar 1945
- TheatricalNR4 May 1945
United KingdomGB
- PremiereULondon10 Jun 1943
- TheatricalU26 Jul 1943
BrazilBR
- Theatricale 121 Jan 1944
JapanJP
- TheatricalG10 May 1952
PortugalPT
- Theatricale 1211 Oct 1946
SwedenSE
- Theatrical30 Aug 1944
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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp was released on 26 July 1943.
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CinemaSerf
11/1/2023
Roger Livesey is superb in this wonderfully colourful depiction of the life of "Clive Candy". We start with his rather undignified seizure at the steam baths by the home guard he is supposed to command and by way of a continuous retrospective, discover just how this man arrived at this embarrassing predicament. First there was the South African campaign, then the Great War saw him gain some prominence and also, after…
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