The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
Country: GB
Technical: col 163m
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Cast: Roger Livesey, Anton Walbrook, Deborah Kerr, Roland Culver, John Laurie
Synopsis:
One-upped by a bumptious young lieutenant, Brigadier-General Clive Wynne-Candy looks back over his career to the days when his own hotheadedness led to his meeting his best friend and the woman of his life, or maybe one should say 'women'.
Review:
The object of scorn and opprobrium from W.S.Churchill himself, this is in fact anything but an extravagant piss-rip of the army (though viewers of the first reel could be forgiven for thinking otherwise). If the PM had taken the trouble to acquaint himself with the creators' earlier work he would have known that they were anything but patriotic and moreover capable of producing that rarest of artefacts, edifying propaganda. This comes in the form of the theme that the rules of engagement have changed and that the old general is nothing but a dinosaur, an idealist in a world of opportunists; except that we are made damn' sure that our hearts are on the side of the idealists! A subtle entertainment then, put together with all the flair and humour we would expect, with only a couple of speeches about the Germans that grate a little now.
Country: GB
Technical: col 163m
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Cast: Roger Livesey, Anton Walbrook, Deborah Kerr, Roland Culver, John Laurie
Synopsis:
One-upped by a bumptious young lieutenant, Brigadier-General Clive Wynne-Candy looks back over his career to the days when his own hotheadedness led to his meeting his best friend and the woman of his life, or maybe one should say 'women'.
Review:
The object of scorn and opprobrium from W.S.Churchill himself, this is in fact anything but an extravagant piss-rip of the army (though viewers of the first reel could be forgiven for thinking otherwise). If the PM had taken the trouble to acquaint himself with the creators' earlier work he would have known that they were anything but patriotic and moreover capable of producing that rarest of artefacts, edifying propaganda. This comes in the form of the theme that the rules of engagement have changed and that the old general is nothing but a dinosaur, an idealist in a world of opportunists; except that we are made damn' sure that our hearts are on the side of the idealists! A subtle entertainment then, put together with all the flair and humour we would expect, with only a couple of speeches about the Germans that grate a little now.
Country: GB
Technical: col 163m
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Cast: Roger Livesey, Anton Walbrook, Deborah Kerr, Roland Culver, John Laurie
Synopsis:
One-upped by a bumptious young lieutenant, Brigadier-General Clive Wynne-Candy looks back over his career to the days when his own hotheadedness led to his meeting his best friend and the woman of his life, or maybe one should say 'women'.
Review:
The object of scorn and opprobrium from W.S.Churchill himself, this is in fact anything but an extravagant piss-rip of the army (though viewers of the first reel could be forgiven for thinking otherwise). If the PM had taken the trouble to acquaint himself with the creators' earlier work he would have known that they were anything but patriotic and moreover capable of producing that rarest of artefacts, edifying propaganda. This comes in the form of the theme that the rules of engagement have changed and that the old general is nothing but a dinosaur, an idealist in a world of opportunists; except that we are made damn' sure that our hearts are on the side of the idealists! A subtle entertainment then, put together with all the flair and humour we would expect, with only a couple of speeches about the Germans that grate a little now.