The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) | |
| Director(s) | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger |
| Producer(s) | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Richard Vernon |
| Top Genres | Drama, Romance, War |
| Top Topics | World War I, World War II |
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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 ButtonThe 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 EmpiresEdith 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 BluesJul 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 BluesJul 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 BluesJul 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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Clive Candy: War starts at midnight!
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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The filmmakers wanted Laurence Olivier to play Clive Candy, but he was prevented from being furloughed from the Navy by Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who didn't want the film to be made. Churchill didn't want to bolster the production with an actor and star of Olivier's caliber, as he felt the movie was critical of a type of British patriot. Olivier was allowed to take a leave from the Navy to make a film about William Shakespeare's patriotic King Henry V in The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fift with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France. Roger Livesey was cast instead. A generation later he played Olivier's father, Billy Rice, in The Entertainer, though he was actually less than a year older than Olivier.
Director Michael Powell was intrigued by how second-unit cameraman Jack Cardiff was filming the animal heads and gave Cardiff his first big break as the cinematographer on his next film, A Matter of Life and Death.
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