Review of The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) by Nick O — 11 Jun 2011

Pressburger's and Powell's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is a pro-war picture set durring the second world war. The story begins with a platoon from the british home guard who have been given orders to attack. But all the soldiers don't think so very much of that idea and decides to pay Colonel Clive Candy (Roger Livesey) a little armed visit, a mutiny in the middle of his beak in a turkic bath. Clive Candy become furious of rage and says to them that they have no experiance comperead to his fourty-years-long duty, fighting both in the boer-wars and in the first world war, and that's what this picture is about.

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is a good looking picture with the good art direction, makeup and costumes. The story is aslo very good. We get some marvelous acting preformances. In the title role we have Roger Livesey as the british soldier Clive Candy who befriends the german soldier Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff (Anton Walbrook) after being duelling with swords. We have the beautiful and young Deborah Kerr who actually plays three different characters and she does it just fine. Overall it's a good looking movie with great actors. Thumbs up.