May 8th 
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp**  
(GB 1943)                     
Rank/GFD. 163m.

During World War II a retired officer reflects on life and loves of his past youth, including his platonic kinship with a benevolent German officer.
A sprawling and quite bold Technicolor war romance (particularly for its time) cleverly spanning 40 years, and only vaguely anything to do with the satirical Colonel Blimp cartoons, from which Churchill and others got totally the wrong impression. For modern audiences, it is a moving wallow in one man's personal nostalgia, even if the imagery of hunting animals nowadays is politically incorrect.

Written, Produced and Directed by: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger.
Starring: Roger Livesey, Anton Walbrook, Deborah Kerr, James McKechnie, Ursula Jeans, Roland Culver, John Laurie, Arthur Wontner, Albert Lieven, Eric Maturin, A.E. Matthews.
Photography: Georges Perinal, Jack Cardiff, Geoffrey Unsworth, Harold Haysom. 
Music: Allan Gray.
Production Design: Alfred Junge.
Make-up: George Blackler, Dorrie Hamilton, Stuart Freeborn.