This title is misleading; the main character is General Candy; his lifelong adversary and friend is a German officer, and their mutual love interest is played by a radiant Deborah Kerr. This film covers over forty years of military service of Candy and his adventures. It avoids the usual military stereotype associated with all high-ranking officers of any army you would like to imagine. Instead, it portrays one particular officer as a human being with feelings, love interests, honor, truth, courage, and disappointments. In other words, it tells its story in a realistic, rather than fanciful, or militaristic way. The film was amazingly made in 1943, but has the feel of a film made well after WW2. The cinematography is breathtaking; but that should come as no surprise with the unsurpassed reputation of the cinematographer, Powell. A very underrated film.
