Portrays in warm-hearted detail the life and loves of one extraordinary man. We meet the imposingly rotund General Clive Wynne-Candy, a blustering old duffer who seems the epitome of stuffy, outmoded values. Traveling backwards 40 years we see a different man altogether: the young and dashing officer "Sugar" Candy. Through a series of relationships with three women and his lifelong friendship with a German officer, we see Candy's life unfold and come to understand how difficu... (Full plot summary below)
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Portrays in warm-hearted detail the life and loves of one extraordinary man. We meet the imposingly rotund General Clive Wynne-Candy, a blustering old duffer who seems the epitome of stuffy, outmoded values. Traveling backwards 40 years we see a different man altogether: the young and dashing officer "Sugar" Candy. Through a series of relationships with three women and his lifelong friendship with a German officer, we see Candy's life unfold and come to understand how difficult it is for him to adapt his sense of military honor to modern notions of "total war.
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| GuardianPeter BradshawThis glorious film is about the greatest mystery of all: how old people were once young, and how young people are in the process of becoming old. |
| CinePassionFernando F. CroceThe greatest of all British films, the greatest film about Britishness |
| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken HankeFantastically modern looking film that stands the test of time. |
| Film Freak CentralWalter Chawsays something wonderful about who we are when we're at our best. |
| Monthly Film BulletinMFB CriticsEach individual part is carefully built up and the film as a whole (if a trifle unsatisfying in retrospect) repays the evident care which has been lavished upon it. |
| Time OutJoshua RothkopfOf all the things to be nostalgic about, warfare would seem the least likely candidate, but that's the unusual perspective of this one-of-a-kind 1943 landmark - maybe the most wonderfully British movie ever made. |
| Total FilmNeil SmithIts status as a national treasure is assured, thanks to Roger Livesey's protean lead turn, Deborah Kerr's three incarnations of his ideal woman and the mastery of the medium that typified The Archers at their height. |
| Empire MagazineAlan MorrisonA wonderful salute to British decency and a touching portrait of a friendship that bridges national boundaries. |
| Village VoiceJ. HobermanA 1943 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger collaboration so unambiguously satirizing the military mind-set that Prime Minister Winston Churchill tried to have it banned. |
| Movie MetropolisChristopher LongThe rarest of cinematic treasures: a historical epic that is also intensely personal and emotionally earnest. |
