Colonel Blimp vs Winston Churchill and the MoI

Published: May 12, 2007, 8:28 am

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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp [1943] Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger. Starring Roger Livesey, Anton Walbrook and Deborah Kerr.To continue the British Cinema theme, I thought I'd highlight one of the most interesting backstories of any film of the WWII era: that of The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.It's been long known that the Winston Churchill opposed to the production of The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp in 1942, but it wasn't until the late 1970s when film historian Ian Christie came across what has now come to be known as The Blimp Files' in the Public Records Office in London, that just who wanted the film stopped and what lengths they were willing to go to to do it finally came to light.The character Colonel Blimp actually originated as a comic strip character (they made comic-inspired movies even then!) created in 1934 for London's Evening Standard. Cartoonist David Low found inspiration for his iconic caricature of Old Britain's

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