High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) is a film by the British film making team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger under the banner of The Archers. It stars Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr and Anton Walbrook. The title derives from the satirical Colonel Blimp comic strip by David Low but the story itself is original. The film is renowned for its beautiful Technicolor cinematography. The film begins in 1943, the middle of the Second World War. The leader of the defenders in a Home Guard training exercise, Major General Clive Wynne-Candy (Roger Livesey) is "captured" in a Turkish bath by soldiers led by a young lieutenant who has decided to strike preemptively, in contravention of antiquated conventions of war, as he believes this is how the Germans fight. Candy protests in vain that "War starts at midnight!"