Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 163 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
The story
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.
- berlin
- germany
- army
- world war i
- world war ii
- british army
- british empire
- satire
- soldier
- prison camp
- london blitz
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Roger Livesey
Major General Clive Wynne-Candy
Deborah Kerr
Edith Hunter / Barbara Wynne / Angela "Johnny" Cannon
Anton Walbrook
Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff
Roland Culver
Col. Betteridge
- James McKechnie — Spud Wilson
- Arthur Wontner — Embassy Counsellor
- David Hutcheson — Hoppy
- Ursula Jeans — Frau von Kalteneck
- John Laurie — Murdoch
- Harry Welchman — Major Davies
- Robert Harris — Embassy Secretary
- A.E. Matthews — President of Tribunal
- Theodore Zichy — Colonel Borg (as Count Zichy)
- Jane Millican — Nurse Erna
- Neville Mapp — Stuffy Graves
- Directed
- Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
- Written
- Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Production
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 272 ratings
- Studio
- The Archers, J. Arthur Rank Organisation
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
