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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) was a Drama - Romance Film directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and produced by Michael Powell, Richard Vernon and Emeric Pressburger.

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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)

By Andrew Wickliffe on Nov 10, 2018 From The Stop Button

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp runs two and three-quarters hours and takes place over forty years. The former?s passage is sublime, the latter?s is subtle. Directors Powell and Pressburger bookend the film in the present, then flashback. The lead at the start of the film is James McKechnie. He?... Read full article


Edith Hunter of THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP

By Clayton on Jun 7, 2016 From Phantom Empires

Edith Hunter of THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP 6/7/2016 12 Comments Every once in a while some film fan will regale me with some tale o' love and obsession with some film star or character, insisting upon their true feeelings ... Read full article


Criterion: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

By Aaron West on Jul 28, 2014 From Criterion Blues

Jul 28 Posted by aaronwest THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP, POWELL AND PRESSBURGER, 1943 ?BUT THE WAR BEGINS AT MIDNIGHT!!? frustratingly exclaims General Wynne-Candy, known to the film audience as Colonel Blimp. There are a lot of points to the Powell and Pressburger epic, and the most potent ... Read full article


Criterion: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

By Aaron West on Jul 28, 2014 From Criterion Blues

Jul 28 Posted by aaronwest THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP, POWELL AND PRESSBURGER, 1943 ?BUT THE WAR BEGINS AT MIDNIGHT!!? frustratingly exclaims General Wynne-Candy, known to the film audience as Colonel Blimp. There are a lot of points to the Powell and Pressburger epic, and the most potent ... Read full article


Criterion: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

By Aaron West on Jul 28, 2014 From Criterion Blues

Jul 28 Posted by aaronwest THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP, POWELL AND PRESSBURGER, 1943 ?BUT THE WAR BEGINS AT MIDNIGHT!!? frustratingly exclaims General Wynne-Candy, known to the film audience as Colonel Blimp. There are a lot of points to the Powell and Pressburger epic, and the most potent ... Read full article


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Quotes from The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

Clive Candy: The Kaiser spoke - and the Prince of Wales spoke ...
Edith Hunter: Spoke about what?
Clive Candy: Nobody could remember.


Hoppy: I was awfully sorry to hear about your leg.
[Looks down]
Hoppy: Jumping Jehosaphat! They're both there!
Clive Candy: What the hell did you think I was standing on?
Hoppy: They told me in Bloemfontein that they cut off your left leg.
Clive Candy: [Examines leg] Can't have, old boy. I'd have known about it.


Clive Candy: Until now, Germany has used her arms with honor.
[pause, smiles]
Clive Candy: I admit he said nothing about her legs.


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Facts about The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

Clive Candy goes to Germany to fight a duel over propaganda about the British treatment of people in South Africa in the Boer War. Many of the cited things he was dueling over were in fact true. "Concentration camp" was first used to describe British camps in South Africa in 1899-1902.
Three-quarters of the Germans in the crowd at the POW camp are "carefully painted and positioned" plaster models.
Michael Powell's golden cocker spaniels Erik and Spangle make their second appearance on film as Clive and Barbara return from their honeymoon.
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