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The life and death of Colonel Blimp / Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger ; edited and with an introduction by Ian Christie.
- Title
- The life and death of Colonel Blimp / Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger ; edited and with an introduction by Ian Christie.
- Author
- Powell, Michael, 1905-1990
- Publication
- London : Faber and Faber, 1994.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PN1997.L573 P68 1994 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xx, 316 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp traces, in flashback, the intertwined lives of a dashing young officer and his German Counterpart from their first encounter, fighting a duel in Berlin in 1902, to a double defeat - the gallant British officer becomes a crusty old Blimp, and his gallant German counterpart arrives in England as a pathetic refugee from Nazi Germany. The plot is juxtaposed to that of the British officer's thrice lost love - which introduces a disturbing undercurrent of romantic pessimism into what might otherwise seem a nostalgic chronicle. This volume also contains documentary material relevant to Powell and Pressburger's struggle to get the film made in war-torn Britain.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- War films
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 0571143555
- LCCN
- ^^^95114713^
- OCLC
- 59810174
- SCSB-11313701
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library