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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp DVD

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Release Year: 1943

Runtime: 163 min

Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

Cast: Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook, Roland Culver, James McKechnie

Studios: The Archers, J. Arthur Rank Organisation

General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. But it wasn't always this way. Flashing back to his early career in the Boer War and World War I, we see a dashing young officer whose life has been shaped by three different women, and by a lasting friendship with a German soldier.

Special Features:

New digital master from the Film Foundation’s 2012 4K restoration

Audio commentary

Featuring director Michael Powell and filmmaker Martin Scorsese.

New video introduction by Scorsese

A Profile of “The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp,”

A documentary from 2000

Restoration demonstration, hosted by Scorsese

Optimism and Sheer Will, a 2012 interview

With editor Thelma Schoonmaker Powell, Michael Powell’s widow.

Gallery

Featuring rare behind-the-scenes production stills