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Daniel Johnson celebrates The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, the glorious wartime cinematic masterpiece by Powell and Pressburger that Churchill wanted to ban

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Winston churchill got a great many things right, but one that he got badly wrong was the 1943 Powell and Pressburger film The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. Before even having seen it, the then Prime Minister decided that it was pro-German (it...

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