The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
"An unforgettable story of forty gallant years."
ThumbScore
👍 87%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 97%
(RT: 97%) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Roger Livesey as Major General Clive Wynne-Candy
Anton Walbrook as Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff
Roland Culver as Col. Betteridge
James McKechnie as Spud Wilson
Arthur Wontner as Embassy Counsellor
David Hutcheson as Hoppy
Ursula Jeans as Frau von Kalteneck
Is The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp good?
Yes. 87% audience score, estimated from 282 TMDB ratings. Critics agree, scoring it 97%.
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Overview
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. Wikipedia ↗
