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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is a 1943 British romantic-war film written, produced and directed by the British film-making team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It stars Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr and Anton Walbrook. The title derives from the satirical Colonel Blimp comic strip by David Low, but the story is original.
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp: Directed by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger. With James McKechnie, Neville Mapp, Vincent Holman, Roger Livesey. From the Boer War through World War II, a soldier rises through the ranks in the British military.
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. Roger Livesey dynamically embodies outmoded English militarism as the indelible General Clive Candy, who barely survives four decades of tumultuous British history ...
Oct 27, 2002 · Made in 1942 at the height of the Nazi threat to Great Britain, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's work is an uncommonly civilized film about war and soldiers--and rarer still, a film that defends the old against the young.
Jun 19, 2023 · The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp: The war film that Churchill tried to ban. 15 June 2023. By Mark Allison, Features correspondent. Alamy. (Credit: Alamy) Powell and Pressburger's...
Dec 31, 2014 · From Imdb; Portrays in warm-hearted detail the life and loves of one extraordinary man. We meet the imposingly rotund General Clive Wynne-Candy, a...
A moving evocation of both British values and the passage of time, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is an epic portrait of a singular character by Powell and Pressburger. Read Critics Reviews...
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