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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James McKechnie | Spud Wilson |
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Neville Mapp | Stuffy Graves |
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Vincent Holman | Club Porter (1942) |
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Roger Livesey | Clive Candy |
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David Hutcheson | Hoppy |
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Spencer Trevor | Period Blimp |
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Roland Culver | Colonel Betteridge |
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James Knight | Club Porter (1902) |
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Deborah Kerr | Edith Hunter |
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Dennis Arundell | Café Orchestra Leader |
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David Ward | Kaunitz |
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Jan Van Loewen | Indignant Citizen |
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Valentine Dyall | von Schönborn |
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Carl Jaffe | von Reumann |
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Albert Lieven | von Ritter |
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Eric Maturin | Colonel Goodhead |
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Frith Banbury | Baby-Face Fitzroy |
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Robert Harris | Embassy Secretary |
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Arthur Wontner | Embassy Counsellor |
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Theodore Zichy | Colonel Borg |
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Anton Walbrook | Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff |
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Jane Millican | Nurse Erna |
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Ursula Jeans | Frau von Kalteneck |
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Phyllis Morris | Pebble |
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Muriel Aked | Aunt Margaret |
Director | Michael Powell |
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Emeric Pressburger |
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Writer | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | |
Producer | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Richard Vernon | |
Musician | Allan Gray | |
Photography | Georges Périnal |