This is Michael Powell's and Emeric Pressburger's masterpiece, a magnificent epic comedy charting almost half a century of British history from the Boer War to WWII. It was probably the first wartime film to conclude that the Second World War was fought against Nazism, and not against the German people.
April 13, 1970
The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp (1943) *****
This is Michael Powell's and Emeric Pressburger's masterpiece, a magnificent epic comedy charting almost half a century of British history from the Boer War to WWII. It was probably the first wartime film to conclude that the Second World War was fought against Nazism, and not against the German people.
