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Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The 163 minutes, United Kingdom (1943), U
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Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The: Powell's and Pressburger's fifth film, a masterwork, was made despite prime minister Winston Churchill's wishes. His opposition did the film one favour, since his refusal to release Laurence Olivier from service meant that Livesey took the role of Clive Candy, the character based on Low's Evening Standard cartoon, and made it entirely his own...
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