The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

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British distributors ITV DVD have revealed that they are planning to release on Blu-ray Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), starring Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr and Anton Walbrook. The preliminary release date set by the distributors is July 2.

The film has been fully restored by the Academy Film Archive in association with the British Film Institute, ITV Studios Global Entertainment Ltd., and The Film Foundation.

According to the Film Foundation official site, during the restoration a 4K wet-gate scan of the original 3-strip Technicolor was performed and Reliance MediaWorks performed the digital restoration, while Warner Bros. Motion Picture Imaging did the digital color correction. The audio restoration was carried out at Audio Mechanics with sources provided by the British Film Institute. The restoration was overseen by director Martin Scorsese and Michael Powell's widow, Thelma Schoonmaker.

Yesterday, the new restoration opened up in selected theaters across the United Kingdom.

In this Powell/Pressburger production set in World War Two Britain, stuffy ex-soldier Clive Candy (Livesey) recalls his career which began as a dashing officer in the Boer War. As a young man he lost the woman he loved (Kerr, who plays three roles) to a Prussian officer (Walbrook), whom he fought in a duel only to become lifelong friends with. Candy cannot help but feel that his notions of honour and chivalry are out of place in modern warfare. The film's title comes from 'Evening Standard' cartoonist David Low's satirical comic creation, Colonel Blimp.

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