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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
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: 27521
Studio: Criterion
Theatrical Release Date: May 04, 1945
Editorial Review:
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
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - A film unlike any other
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is a true rarity in moviedom, a film that is intellectually engaging, filled with life and innovation, a film that stands as a celebration of cinema, that explores the medium to the fullest. It was released not too long after Citizen Kane, and deserves to be held on the same level of esteem because of its glorious innovation and storytelling techniques. Blimp is a uniquely British film, yet universal, a film of its period(early '40's), yet light years ahead of ... Read More
Rating: - Gad! The Critics are Right!
"The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" is a magnificent film!
Fully restored in its Technicolor glory, this movie by Powell and Pressburger (who also brought us "Black Narcissus' and "The Red Shoes") portrays forty years in the life of a British officer, Clive Wynne-Candy (Roger Livesey), who in the enthusiasm of youth rushes off to Berlin (against orders) to save the reputation of Britain, which is being maligned by a dastardly double agent. During the adventure, which lands Wynne-Candy ... Read More
Rating:  - A delightful Brit historical romance
BEWARE SPOILERS
"Jolly good show, old chap," is what directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger might have said to one another as they watched the final cut of their movie in a private showing in 1943. Because Winston Churchill did not like the movie, feeling that it was too generous to the Germans in its positive depiction of the German army officer Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff (Anton Walbrook), it was banned from public showing in Britain until 1945.
The Life and Death ... Read More
Rating: - 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. After reading the other reviews, I have little to add except it's a gem in any video collection.
Rating: - A Wonderful Story
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is a wonderful generational story spanning a period from the Boer War through World War I to World War II that is, at once, both poignant and life affirming. Although a little too long and self-conscious at times it, nevertheless, talks to important values for all of us such as friendship and honor.
The production values are simply superb and the acting outstanding. It's photographed in a rich color that we don't see any more in this day and age of computer ... Read More
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