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Originally posted by anthony chubb@Mar 9 2005, 05:57 PM
Hello
My question is was this film said to be disliked <hated >by the late Sir Winston Churchill.
i recently obtained a vhs copy VCI and wondered what he could object to in this film .
Was it also condsidered to be their greatest achievment
?p and p
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He objected to the connection between the film and "Colonel Blimp" which was a cartoon strip that made senior Army officers out to be a bunch of old duffers. He also thought that it might bring the Army, certainly the Army high command, into disrepute.
But that was all before he'd even seen the film, certainly before he'd read the script.
The book edited by Prof. Ian Christie includes all the Government papers & memos about it from the time and also shows you the changes that were made during shooting.
As to if it's their
greatest film?
It's a close call between that one,
I Know Where I'm Going! (1945),
A Matter of Life and Death (1946),
Black Narcissus (1947) and
The Red Shoes (1948) - or maybe some of their other films. They made so many great films it's hard to put them in order [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif[/img]
Steve
09-03-2005, 05:57 PM
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