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Among top contenders was Boston, which had flown handsome Governor Maurice J. Tobin, and other leaders, to London. At the State House, a bas-relief map of Greater Boston was ready for delegates; there was talk of using a blimp for reconnaissance...
...Colonel Blimp (Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook; TIME, April...
...reviewing British films for the past decade, the picture takes retrospective glances at scenes from such pictures as The Scarlet Pimpernel and Colonel Blimp. The film also introduces a few British faces still new to U.S. audiences: Googie Withers, Ann Todd, James Mason and Stewart Granger. This timely short should make U.S. cinemaddicts curious-and Hollywood's cinemanufacturers nervous-about Britain's celluloid exports...
What makes "Colonel Blimp" stretch to 146 minutes is its tremendous scope, its three generation historical footnote to the Law burlesque. Beginning called Clive Candy through out of the Bear War, the picture plumps down a punch bowl full of a atmosphere, all very English and very genteel. This was when wars were just "Summer maneuvers" so far as most people were concerned, and the British military set were having a dandy old time...
...Blimp's dueling and drinking and wild-game hunting, all in the best radiation of protocol, are brown up consistently enough into a balloon that pops with the realization that old-school formality must be chucked when the other team doesn't follow the same rules, but there is something devilishly out of place in the puzzle...