Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp, The (1943) - (Movie Clip) Fighting Positions

Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp, The (1943) -- (Movie Clip) You Are Livingstone, I Presume?

Candy (Roger Livesey) meets Edith (Deborah Kerr) in Berlin, just about perfectly cast in her first appearance in her earliest (of three) characters in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, 1943.

Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp, The (1943) -- (Movie Clip) Whatever You Shoot

Young Clive Wynne-Candy (Roger Livesey) returned from the Boer War, welcomed by Aunt Margaret (Muriel Aked, with servant Phyllis Morris) with a suggestion he follows, time flying, trick photography, from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp, 1943.

Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp, The (1943) -- (Movie Clip) Forty Years Ago

Part of the opening narrative device, home guard squad led by "Spud" Wilson (James McKechnie) arresting the elder General Wynne-Candy (Roger Livesey) at a Turkish bath, from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp, 1943.

Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The (1943) -- (Movie Clip) Opening, Total War, Isn't It?

A variation on the usual "Archers" open (with no arrow!), then a clever embroidery theme for the credits, then the roaring military-musical motorcycling sequence, opening Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's celebrated The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp, 1943.