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Reviews of The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
aka Colonel Blimp

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Hit the target for the Blimp theme. Or try listening to the start of Commando Patrol (dispatch riders)

Trailer for digitally restored print

• Fascinating trivia (and any goofs) connected with the film
• All location & studio details known

• Contemporary Previews and Reviews

• Theo at the tribunal
• 'The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp' reconsidered.By James Chapman
• Blimp and Collaboration by Chris Fujiwara
• Colonel Blimp - A gay icon?
• Henry Coombs Reviews
• "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" by A. L. Kennedy: A Review by Graham Roberts
• Richard Combs: The Listener, 17th October 1985
• Derek Malcolm: The Guardian, 20th April 2000
• Norris Smith:- The black motorcyclist in Blimp
• Notes from the video sleeve
• DVD review by David Stubbs
• TV Guide review
• "Radio Times" film guide
• Colonel Blimp's England
• David Low - Creator of the (im)mortal Colonel
• Retrospective - 1985
• Colonel Blimp at the NFT
• Chicago Reader Review by Dave Kehr
• Blimp Music by Jim Pople
• Vintage glimpses of global exotica - Toronto Star, Feb 13th 2003

• Link to -> Colonel Blimp: the originality of a propaganda film and its reception in France
  by Stéphane Launey (en français)
• Link to -> Theo's alien's tribunal speech on YouTube
• Link to -> Theo's "This is not a gentleman's war" speech on YouTube
• Link to -> Prisma review (in German)
• Link to -> BFI ScreenOnline
• Link to -> BFI feature
• Link to -> Bil Antoniou's review
• Link to -> Blimp & AMOLAD
  A Review by Sarah Knight, University of Warwick
• Link to -> An enduring vision of a life worth dying for
  By Christopher Howse, Daily Telegraph, 4th August 2005
• Link to -> "Trailer" at Virgin.net
  Actually just the first couple of minutes after the opening titles
  the motorcycle ride & the start of the scenes in the barn
• Link to -> Script at dailyscript.com

• Neal's photos of Blimp locations - December 2000
• Visiting Ovington Gardens (Blimp's house) - 29th April 2001
• Alan's photos of The Bull and the motorcycle ride - 2007
• Quentin's identification of the panning shot across Ilkley Moor before closing in on Denton Hall - 8 August 2010

• The Shame and Disgrace of Colonel Blimp
  The (in)famous pamphlet by the Sidneyan Society.
  Try not to laugh - they were serious
• The Home Guard, Picture Post and Colonel Blimp
• The "Liverpool Murder" mentioned in the clip of the Bradford Daily Telegraph

• Reviews of the Carlton DVD & Video
• Link to -> TheCritic review of Carlton DVD
• Link to -> Film-makers on film: Stephen Fry
  Stephen Fry talks to Sarah Donaldson about Powell and Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

• Link to -> Criterion page about the DVD
• Link to -> Criterion essay about Blimp by Ronald Haver
• Link to -> DVD Savant review of the Criterion DVD
• Link to -> Images Journal Review - Review by Derek Hill
• Link to -> Entertainment Weekly DVD review
• Link to -> DVD Journal review
• Link to -> Roger Ebert review
• Link to -> Review at MilkPlus
• Link to -> DVD Movie Central Review
• Link to -> About.com review
• Link to -> DVD Outsider review by Camus of the Granada boxed set
• Link to -> Translations and subtitles

• Link to -> Comparison of Criterion (region 0), Carlton (region 2), ITV (region B) & Criterion (region A) DVDs & Blu-rays by DVD Beaver
• Link to -> Comparison between Criterion & Carlton DVDs
• Link to -> Filmycks review

Pictures from the PaPAS Gallery

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