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A Balasaur Score of 83 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 8/10, Rotten Tomatoes 97%. Critics rate it 17 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 92% of the 86 1940s war movies in this catalog. It runs long at 2h 43m. Streaming on Max and Tubi.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
Critics rate it 17 points higher than audiences do.
277 audience votes
Key crew
- Michael PowellDirector
- Emeric PressburgerDirector
- Michael PowellWriter
- Emeric PressburgerWriter
- Allan GrayOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Roger LiveseyMajor General Clive Wynne-Candy
- Deborah KerrEdith Hunter / Barbara Wynne / Angela "Johnny" Cannon
- Anton WalbrookTheo Kretschmar-Schuldorff
- Roland CulverCol. Betteridge
- James McKechnieSpud Wilson
- Arthur WontnerEmbassy Counsellor
- David HutchesonHoppy
- Ursula JeansFrau von Kalteneck
- John LaurieMurdoch
- Harry WelchmanMajor Davies
- Robert HarrisEmbassy Secretary
- A.E. MatthewsPresident of Tribunal
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