The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
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Date: January 01, 1943 to December 31, 1943
Dates Note: 1943
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United Kingdom
Place of Origin: United Kingdom
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Color: Color
Silent: No
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Restored by the Academy Film Archive in association with the BFI, ITV Studios Global Entertainment Ltd., and The Film Foundation, with funding provided by The Material World Charitable Foundation, the Louis B. Mayer Foundation, Cinema per Roma Foundation, and The Film Foundation
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Arrows of Desire: The Films of Powell & PressburgerDescription:
A dubiously boastful British officer recounts his life and career from the Boer War through World War II in Powell and Pressburger’s mocking send-up of the English military upper crust, based on an old newspaper cartoon series. Termed both “the greatest English film ever made” (The New Yorker) and “disgraceful” (Winston Churchill), Blimp traces the history of modern English warfare through the unreliable recollections of a career officer and lifetime bumbler, from his hot-headed youth to his more mature years, when he’s just full of hot air. Entirely stagebound, shot on increasingly elaborate sets, this imperial(ist) fantasy was The Archers’ first Technicolor work.
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