The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp1943

Stars: Anton Walbrook, Deborah Kerr, Roger Livesey, Roland Culver
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Rating: NOT RATED
Runtime: 163 minutes

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is a 1943 romantic drama war film written, produced and directed by the British film making team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It stars Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr and Anton Walbrook. The title derives… more »



Clive Candy:
I heard all that in the last war! They fought foul then - and who won it?

Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff:
I don't think you won it. We lost it -but you lost something, too. You forgot to learn the moral. Because victory was yours, you failed to learn your lesson twenty years ago and now you have to pay the school fees again. Some of you will learn quicker than the others, some of you will never learn it - because you've been educated to be a gentleman and a sportsman, in peace and in war. But Clive! [tenderly] Dear old Clive - this is not a gentleman's war. This time you're fighting for your very existence against the most devilish idea ever created by a human brain - Nazism. And if you lose, there won't be a return match next year... perhaps not even for a hundred years.

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