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.
Roger Livesey
Deborah Kerr
Anton Walbrook
Roland Culver
James McKechnie
Arthur Wontner
David Hutcheson
Ursula Jeans
John Laurie
Harry Welchman
Robert Harris
A.E. Matthews
Theodore Zichy
Jane Millican
Neville Mapp
Vincent Holman
Spencer Trevor
James Knight
Dennis Arundell
David Ward
Jan Van Loewen
Valentine Dyall
Carl Jaffe
Albert Lieven
Eric Maturin
Frith Banbury
Phyllis Morris
Muriel Aked
Reginald Tate
Yvonne Andre
Marjorie Gresley
Felix Aylmer
Norman Pierce
Edward Cooper
Joan Swinstead
Pat McGrath