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Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger • 1943 • United Kingdom Starring Roger Livesey, Anton Walbrook, Deborah Kerr Considered by many to be the finest British film ever made, THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP, by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, is a stirring masterpiece like no other.
Deconstruction: The original Colonel Blimp character, created by left-wing cartoonist David Low, was meant as a satire of conservative Army officers, but Powell and Pressburger deconstructed it by examining how the character would have got that way in the first place—of course, giving him a rich and interesting early life made him much more sympathetic.
Dec 14, 2022 · Despite Winston Churchill’s numerous attempts to suppress its production, The Archers successfully completed another audacious masterpiece, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, in the height of WWII. The film, known to be Emeric Pressburger’s favorite of his own works, depicts the story of General Candy’s (Roger Livesey) forty years of ...
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp < The Greatest Films of All Time General Clive Wynne-Candy is first found relaxing in faintly complacent and dufferish old age in London during the Second World War, before we flash back to his days as a dashing young officer in 1890s Vienna.
A dashing young subaltern in the British Army of 1943 has to take part in an exercise organised in conjunction with the Home Guard. He is convinced the Germans are gaining in the war because the English fight according to the rules and the Germans dont, so to illustrate his point he sets off to capture Clive Candy, a retired general now soldiering in the Home Guard, before the exercise officially begins.
Mar 20, 2013 · One of the many oddities surrounding The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) is that as critics have come to acclaim it as a masterpiece—perhaps the masterpiece—of British cinema, this marvelously uncategorizable epic of love and war has remained relatively unknown to the moviegoing public.
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.
