“The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp” quotes
(1943)
Title The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Year 1943
Directors Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Genre Drama, Comedy, Romance, War
Year 1943
Directors Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Genre Drama, Comedy, Romance, War
Plot – English officer Clive Candy has fought the Anglo-Boer war and during World War I he has proved his courage and his conduct. He thinks the British army is unbeatable and wants to unmask the German journalist who has written terrible stories about the troops. His friendship with German officer Theo survives despite the Second World conflict and the love for the same woman.
All actors – James McKechnie, Neville Mapp, Vincent Holman, Roger Livesey, David Hutcheson, Spencer Trevor, Roland Culver, James Knight, Deborah Kerr, Dennis Arundell, David Ward, Jan Van Loewen
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“I read your broadcast up to the point where you describe the collapse of France. You commented on Nazi methods - foul fighting, bombing refugees, machine-gunning hospitals, lifeboats, lightships, bailed-out pilots - by saying that you despised them, that you would be ashamed to fight on their side and that you would sooner accept defeat than...” (continue)(continue reading)
“After the war, we had very bad years in Germany. We got poorer and poorer. Every day retired officers or schoolteachers were caught shoplifting.”
“Money lost its value, the price of everything rose except of human beings.”
“My English is not very much but my friendship for you is very much.”
“War starts at midnight!”
“- Clive Candy: I often thought, a fellow like me dies - special knowledge, all to waste. Well, am I dead? Does my knowledge count for nothing? Experience? Skill?
- Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff: It is a different knowledge they need now, Clive. The enemy is different, so you have to be different, too.”“If we don't know what we are doing, the enemy certainly can't anticipate our future actions.”
Do you remember, Clive, we used to say: "Our army is fighting for our homes, our women, and our children"? Now the women are fighting beside the men. The children are trained to shoot. What's left is the "home". But what is the "home" without women and children?
“If you let yourself be defeated by them, just because you are too fair to hit back the same way they hit at you, there won't be any methods but Nazi methods!”
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