Passport to Pimlico

Name: Passport to Pimlico
Released: 1949
Duration: 84 min
Rating: 70.0
Cast: Stanley Holloway, Betty Warren, Barbara Murray, Paul Dupuis, John Slater

70%

Comedy

UK, 1949, 84 min

Directed by:

Henry Cornelius

Screenplay:

T.E.B. Clarke (original screenplay)

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PASSPORT TO PIMLICO satirizes the bureaucracy of postwar England, primarily the policy of rationing that was necessary as the economy recovered its footing. In Pimlico, a neighborhood of London, the accidental explosion of a left-over bomb reveals a cache of treasure and papers declaring the area is technically a part of Burgundy, and therefore separate from England. The residents, tired of postwar rationing and other problems, declare independence. At first flush with the feeling of freedom, they soon realize that surviving as their own state will be more difficult than they realized. (official distributor synopsis)

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D.Moore

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English A sort of British post-war Kocourkov or The Best Man of All. I had to check if the script was at least inspired by a real event, because the plot is so absurd that I wouldn't be surprised if there was a grain of truth in it. But it’s not. (09/28/2021)