I wasn't impressed by The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp myself - it was based upon the cartoon character created by David Lowe in the pre war 1930s as a satire on the establishment and didn't transcribe into a good war movie.


Colonel Blimp wasn't a traditional war movie in that sense, but I'm afraid you've missed the point -- Powell and Pressburger, though Clive "Sugar" Candy, were trying to tell the British people that Herr Hitler and Co. could not be defeated by the traditional ways; Candy learns, thanks to the young subaltern of the Loamshires, that the only way to defeat the Nazis was to engage them in total war. It, like Mrs. Miniver, was a call-to-arms.

And anyone who couldn't be moved by Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff's speech about how he left Germany while his Nazified children stayed behind simply has no heart.

Horses for courses, but INMHO, Colonel Blimp is one of the best movies I have seen.

T.