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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
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Film Description Acclaimed as one of Powell and Pressburger's greatest achievements, this delightful film, with much generosity of spirit, portrays the life of Clive Candy (Roger Livesey), a stuffy British soldier whose life is shown in episodes from the Boer War through to the London Blitz of 1940.
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DVD Extras Includes: Biographies, stills. HOH subtitles.
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Review by anonymous on 31st August 2000 "In the history of British Cinema there is nothing to touch it" Time Out. Acclaimed as one of Powell and Pressburgers greatest achievements, this delightful film, with much generosity of spirit, portrays the life of Clive Candy (Roger Livesey), a stuffy British soldier whose life is shown in episodes from the Boer War through to the London Blitz of 1943. He is the Colonel Blimp of the title (a cartoon character created by David Low in the Evening Standard) epitomising the upper crust pompous military of the time. We are guided sympathetically through his honourable and chivalrous career from dashing young officer in the Boer War, losing the only woman he ever loved to a Prussian officer he duels with in pre World War 1 Berlin who subsequently becomes his life long friend. The adventure ends in Second Work War London, by which time the fascinating and touching story is complete and the viewer has been given a brilliant insight into the paradoxical nature of the English.
Review by David Oram on 24th May 2002 Considered by one American reviewer as "the English Citizen Kane". I prefer to think of Citizen Kane as the American Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.
Review by Clinton Morgan on 13th March 2000 It is fascinating, that despite our long literary tradition from Edmund Spencer to William Shakespeare and Geoffrey Chaucer to Charles Dickens, that our best screenwriter was not from this sceptred isle. No matter, everything fits in this film from the screenplay, to the performances, to the photography which looks more like a tapestry. View more reviews by Clinton Morgan
Review by Damien Bastock on 11th November 2005 I first saw this movie when i was a twelve year-old boy and again went i did some Military Service in my twenties and thirties. Now at 43 and watching this movie again on Rememberance Day eve, only reiterates what I have always thought - it is arguably one of the top three British movies EVER made - in any genre'.
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Including: A Fish Called Wanda, A Matter of Life and Death , A Room With A View, Blow-up, Brazil, Brief Encounter (Lean, 1945), Brighton Rock, Caravaggio, Dont Look Now, Get Carter.
Including: A Matter of Life and Death , An Affair To Remember, An American In Paris, Breakfast at Tiffanys, Brief Encounter (Lean, 1945), Carousel, Casablanca, Doctor Zhivago, Full Moon In Paris, Gone With The Wind.
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