Analysis:

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp was Powell and Pressburger's second feature for their new Archers production company, following "...One of Our Aircraft is Missing" (1942). The film was their most ambitious collaboration so far, loosely inspired by a popular cartoon series by David Low, lampooning the military establishment as personified by an ageing, buffoonish officer.

This was the first time that the duo had been able to make use of colour stock (although Powell had had a taste of Technicolor with Thief of Bagdad (1940)), and the film is notably short of the creative use of colour in their films after A Matter of Life and Death (1946).

Beginning in the present day with young officer Lieutenant "Spud" Wilson (James McKechnie) showing demonstrating his ambition and understanding of modern warfare when he steals a march on the ageing, complacent Colonel Clive Wynne-Candy (Roger Livesey), during military exercises.

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