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Passport to Pimlico is a British film of genre Comedy directed by Henry Cornelius released in USA on 26 october 1949 with Stanley Holloway
Passport to Pimlico (1949)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 26 october 1949
Length 1h24
Directed by Henry Cornelius
OriginUnited-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Rating70%
Passport to Pimlico is a 1949 British comedy film made by Ealing Studios and starring 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 maternity ward of Ottawa Civic Hospital was temporarily declared extraterritorial by the Canadian government so that, when Princess Margriet of the Netherlands was born there, she would not lose her right to the throne. The film was screened at the 1949 Cannes Film Festival, but not entered into the competition.
Synopsis
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 Pimlico district of London. The explosion reveals a buried cellar containing artwork, coins, jewellery and an ancient parchment document. Professor Hatton-Jones (Margaret Rutherford) authenticates it as a royal charter of Edward IV that ceded the house and its estates to Charles VII ("the Rash"), the last Duke of Burgundy, when he sought refuge there several centuries ago after being presumed dead at the Battle of Nancy. As the charter had never been revoked, Pimlico is legally part of Burgundy. Local policeman P.Actors
Stanley Holloway
(Arthur Pemberton)
Margaret Rutherford
(Professor Hatton-Jones)
Barbara Murray
(Shirley Pemberton)
Paul Dupuis
(Duke of Burgundy)
Raymond Huntley
(Mr. Wix)
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