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Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The (1943) Rank 3 Reviews

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Movie critics combined give Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The (1943) a score of 3.3750 out of 4

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Film Written Magazine (Andrew Howe)

A film which may just make you look at your life and ask some questions best left unanswered. ...read the complete Life and Death of Colonel Blimp movie review at Film Written Magazine (Andrew Howe)

filmsgraded.com (Brian Koller)

What it's about. The forty-plus year military career of ficticious British officer Clive Candy (Roger Livesey) is presented. Candy, a hero of the Boer war, travels to Germany in 1903, where he meets a classy English hottie (Deborah Kerr) and fights a ...read the complete Life and Death of Colonel Blimp movie review at filmsgraded.com (Brian Koller)

Chicago Reader (Dave Kehr)

It's almost impossible to define this 1943 masterpiece by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It was ostensibly based on a cartoon series that satirized the British military class, yet its attitude toward the main character is one of affection, ...read the complete Life and Death of Colonel Blimp movie review at Chicago Reader (Dave Kehr)

New York Times (Thomas M. Pryor)

The regnant and moving performance that Ethel Barrymore gave as the light-spreading English school teacher in Emlyn Williams' stage play, "The Corn Is Green," has been challenged by Warners' Bette Davis in that studio's film version of the play, a ...read the complete Life and Death of Colonel Blimp movie review at New York Times (Thomas M. Pryor)

Time Out (--)

At a time when 'Blimpishness' in the high command was under suspicion as detrimental to the war effort, Powell and Pressburger gave us their own Blimp based on David Low's cartoon character - Major General Clive Wynne-Candy, VC - and back-track over his ...read the complete Life and Death of Colonel Blimp movie review at Time Out (--)

Images (Derek Hill)

When one thinks of the epic film genre, multi-layered character studies rarely come to mind. Of course, it could be argued that Citizen Kane (1941) is an epic, and then there are epics that double as character studies, such as Lawrence of Arabia (1962). ...read the complete Life and Death of Colonel Blimp movie review at Images (Derek Hill)