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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as Major General Clive Wynne-Candy
as Edith Hunter / Barbara Wynne / Angela "Johnny" Cannon
as Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff
as Col. Betteridge
as Spud Wilson
as Embassy Counsellor
as Hoppy
as Frau von Kalteneck
as Murdoch
as Major Davies
CinemaSerf
Nov 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 cam…
