The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp - Criterion Collection
starring: Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook, James McKechnie, Neville Mapp
directed by: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
directed by: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 9780780025028
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0780025024
Label: Criterion
Manufacturer: Criterion
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Criterion
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 22, 2002
Running Time: 163 minutes
Sales Rank: 28524
Studio: Criterion
Theatrical Release Date: May 04, 1945
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
The film follows the exploits of exemplary british soldier clive candy as he battles to maintain his honor & proud gentlemanly conduct through romance three wars & a changing world. Studio: Image Entertainment Release Date: 10/22/2002 Starring: Roger Livesey Anton Walbrook Run time: 163 minutes
Amazon.com:
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's first Technicolor masterpiece, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), transcends its narrow wartime propaganda to portray in warm-hearted detail the life and loves of one extraordinary man. The film's clever narrative structure first presents us with the imposingly rotund General Clive Wynne-Candy (Roger Livesey in his greatest screen performance), a blustering old duffer who seems the epitome of stuffy, outmoded values. But traveling backwards 40 years we see a different man altogether: the young and dashing officer 'Sugar' Candy. Through a series of affecting relationships with three women (all played to perfection by Deborah Kerr) and his touching lifelong friendship with a German officer (Anton Wallbrook), we see Candy's life unfold and come to understand how difficult it is for him to adapt his sense of military honor to modern notions of 'total war.' Notoriously, this is the film that Winston Churchill tried to have banned, and indeed its sympathetic portrayal of a German officer was contentious in 1943, though one suspects that Churchill's own blimpishness was a factor too. --Mark Walker
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- A film unlike any otherThe Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is a true rarity in moviedom, a film that is intellectually engaging, ... Read More
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- Gad! The Critics are Right!"The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" is a magnificent film!
Fully restored in its Technicolor ... Read More
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- A delightful Brit historical romanceBEWARE SPOILERS
"Jolly good show, old chap," is what directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger ... Read More
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- Yes - it's worth all the hype -- and then some!"Colonel Blimp" is probably the best movie made in wartime Britain and ranks with some of the finest ever, period. ... Read More
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- A Wonderful StoryThe Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is a wonderful generational story spanning a period from the Boer War through World ... Read More
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