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Pimlico dozes during the worst heat wave for years... until London's last unexploded bomb goes off with a deafening roar, flinging the people headlong into a fantastic adventure. Arthur Pemberton and his daughter Shirley, investigating the crater made by the bomb, find treasure and an old document decreeing that Pimlico can be recognized in perpetuity as Burgundian soil. The residents, quick to see the opportunities, dispense with licensing laws, and put themselves on the export list of English firms. The British Government steps in, wires off 'BURGUNDY', sets up customs barriers and cuts off water and electricity.
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Nominated - Best Writing, Story & Screenplay - Academy Awards
Nominated - Best British Film - BAFTA Awards
Official Selection - Cannes Film Festival ---
The picture is almost endlessly clever and rather Swiftian in its amusing critique of bureaucracy, nationalism, and isolationism. Once the premise has been established, the script plays out all the satirical possibilities of a tiny nation of Londoners joyfully, fleetingly separated from Mother England. The film has some nice surprises and sharp dialogue.... A true ensemble comedy, no one performer dominates Passport to Pimlico, though many performances and characters stand out, among them: Stanley Holloway's stalwart Burgundian prime minister; John Slater's fish-loving fishmonger; deliriously eccentric Margaret Rutherford's daffy historian. Basil Radford and Nauton Wayne, so marvelous in Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes turn up here as a pair of concerned government ministers. - Stuart Galbraith IV, DVD Talk
Loveably dotty, while still smartly caustic (with a broad political message beneath its sly humour), this is the Ealing ethos at its very best. Indeed, with its communal hi-jinks, rich swathe of eccentric characters, and madly original plot it could be their most complete film. Who else would think up such a neat ploy as this tidy corner of London, populated with salt-of-the-Earth types, declaring themselves independent? It is a comedy about what is means to be British. Arguably, the subject of every single Ealing comedy, but never so piquantly observed as here. - Ian Nathan, Empire
The cosiest of the Ealing comedies, this is essentially a one-joke affair that is spun out with masterly skill by that most gifted teller of shaggy-dog stories, TEB Clarke, who received an Oscar nomination for his story and screenplay. --David Parkinson, RadioTimes
Newly restored 1949 comedy classic Passport to Pimlico is a fine example of a post-war comedy produced by the renowned Ealing Studios. Written by the highly talented T.E.B Clarke, (who was responsible for another comedy classic, 1951s The Lavender Hill Mob) and directed by Henry Cornelius, Passport to Pimlico shows a great understanding of the mechanics of not only great writing but also of comedy. The performances are also of the highest calibre, featuring the magnificently eccentric Margaret Rutherford (who is perhaps best known for her Miss Marple films of the 1940s and 50s). Comedy stalwarts also feature including Hermione Baddley as Edie and an early performance from Charles Hawtrey before he joined ranks with Sid James and Kenneth Williams in the Carry On films. - Joseph Walsh, Cinevue
Perhaps the most Ealingish of the Ealing comedies, celebrating the cosy sense of wartime togetherness recaptured when the inhabitants of Pimlico, discovering their hereditary independence from Britain, set up a restriction-free (but soon beleaguered and ration-hit) state. --Time Out
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5.0 out of 5 stars A film I had been searching for a long time.
This is one of the classic Ealing Comedies from post war England. The film is still funny today. The humor is dry and satirical but there are some belly laughs also. The film is full of great British character actors. The blu-ray provides a very clear and crisp image. There are a handful of extra features as well. If you or someone you know likes older British comedies (Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Ladykillers (1955), The Lavender Hill Mob etc.) then this is a title to obtain.
3.0 out of 5 stars Great movie, disappointing edition
I love this movie, but was disappointed to find, when it showed up and I opened it, that it has no English subtitles. I'm hard of hearing and that's only exacerbated for me by the British accents. I likely would not have purchased this had I known and will be careful not to purchase Film Movement Blu-rays in the future if I see that English subtitles are not a guaranteed feature.
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