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Adam 2022-10-14 22:24:48
[Film Review] The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) 8.2/10
This Powell-Pressburger's pièce de résistence, which eulogizes the quintessential “Englishness”, is a lavish moonshot on show, not least for its renowned Technicolor sumptuousness that transmogrifies studio-bound fakery into manufactured imagery of an eyeful. The titular Colonel Blimp, a beloved...
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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp quotes
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Colonel Betteridge: Can't imagine anything more awful than to be a prisoner of war in England.
Mr. Wynne: Was the cooking good?
Theo: [pause] It was English cooking.
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Clive Candy: Well sir, I have a friend ...
Colonel Betteridge: Good. Not everybody can say that. Continue!
