Powell & Pressburger&s first Technicolor masterpiece The Life & Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) transcends its narrow wartime propaganda remit to portray in warm-hearted detail the life & loves of one extraordinary man The film&s clever narrative structure first presents us with the imposingly rotund General Clive Wynne-Candy of the Home Guard (Roger Livesey in his greatest screen performance) a blustering old buffer with spreading handlebar moustache & stomach to match Confronted by a youthful regular army Captain he seems the epitome of stuffy outmoded values But travelling backwards 40 years we see a different man altogether the young & dashing officer " Sugar" Candy just returned from earning a Victoria Cross in the Boer War Through a series of affecting relationships with three women (all played to perfection by Deborah Kerr) & his touching lifelong friendship with a German officer (Anton Wallbrook) we see Candy&s life unfold & come to understand how difficult it is for him to adapt his sense of military honour to modern notions of "total war"