USCCB - (Film and Broadcasting) - Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The

Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The

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Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The -- Patriotic saga in which the title British officer (Roger Livesey) is a hero in the Boer War, a general in World War I, then comes out of retirement to serve as a Home Guard commander in World War II. Written and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, the picture is overlong and brimming with sentimentality, yet holds interest with its sympathetic portrayal of Blimp's personal life, the three women who influence it (each played by Deborah Kerr) and a German officer (Anton Walbrook) whom he befriended after a duel in 1902 Berlin and who returns as a refugee from Hitler to warn that chivalry has been out-dated by the Nazis. Wartime violence and romantic complications. (A-II) (br) ( 1943 )

These movies have been evaluated for artistic merit and moral suitability by the media reviewing division of Catholic News Service. The reviews include the CNS rating, the Motion Picture Association of America rating, and a brief synopsis of the movie.

The classifications are as follows:

A-I -- general patronage;
A-II -- adults and adolescents;
A-III -- adults;
L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. L replaces the previous classification, A-IV.
O -- morally offensive.

Note: Some movies previously were designated A-IV. Older films with this classification should be regarded as classified L.