Title: Passport to Pimlico
Original Title: Passport to Pimlico
Year: 1949
Info
- Country: UK
- Length: 84 Minutes (1 hour 24 min)
- Genre: Comedy
- Studios: Ealing Studios
Release Dates
- UK: April 26 1949
- United States: October 26 1949
Plot
'Passport to Pimlico' is a 1949 British comedy film directed by Henry Cornelius and written by T.E.B. Clarke.
Based on true events, it shows the story of the events that happened in Pimlico, an area of London, who suffered by accident a WWII bomb detonation that remained unexploded for several years. All the Pimlico's residents will eventually find out some treasure that were hidden where the bomb exploded that revealed that King Edward IV ceded all the area to the Duke of Burgundy. Those document were never revoked therefore all the Pimlico residencies become a foreing territory that belongs to France. The British Government will be forced to make precautionary measures to have the territory under their control but their residents will think otherwise.
Cast
Director:
Arthur Pemberton
Edie Randall
Shirley Pemberton
Bashford
Connie Pemberton
Duke of Burgundy
Photos
Trivia
The isolation of Pimlico and its support by the common people of London is a reference to the Berlin blockade of June 1948 - May 1949.
The part of Prof. Hatton-Jones was written as a man and was offered to some male performers before it was decided to make the role female, and Margaret Rutherford was cast.
A placard can be seen that says "Forget that Cripps feeling": this refers to Stafford Cripps, who was at the time Chancellor of the Exchequer.
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