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Release Date: 2012

Cast: Sydney Tafler, Stanley Holloway, Raymond Huntley, Philip Stainton, John Slater, Barbara Murray, Hermione Baddeley, Nancy Gabrielle, Paul Dupuis, Margaret Rutherford

Categories: Movies, Political Satire, Political Cinema, Comedy, Ealing Comedies

Passport to Pimlico is a 1949 British comedy film made by Ealing Studios and starred Stanley Holloway, Margaret Rutherford, and Hermione Baddeley. It was directed by Henry Cornelius. The script was written by T.E.B. Clarke and demonstrated his usual logical development of absurd ideas. Some scenes in which the residents are refused passage out of their district into London by the authorities, and rely on supplies thrown over the dividing wall by well-wishers, were very topical because the film was made during the Berlin Blockade. The film was inspired by a true incident during the Second... MORE

Passport to Pimlico is a 1949 British comedy film made by Ealing Studios and starred Stanley Holloway, Margaret Rutherford, and Hermione Baddeley. It was directed by Henry Cornelius. The script was written by T.E.B. Clarke and demonstrated his usual logical development of absurd ideas. Some scenes in which the residents are refused passage out of their district into London by the authorities, and rely on supplies thrown over the dividing wall by well-wishers, were very topical because the film was made during the Berlin Blockade. The film was inspired by a true incident during the Second World War, when the royal family of the Netherlands (including the pregnant Princess Juliana) fled to Canada. Under Dutch law, a royal heir had to be born in the Netherlands in order to be eligible for succession to the throne. To accommodate this, the Canadian government passed a special law officially making the whole maternity wing Dutch territory. The film was screened at the 1949 Cannes Film Festival, but not entered into the competition. When some local children roll a tractor tyre down a hole, it sets off an unexploded bomb left over from the Second World War in Miramont Gardens in the LESS