🎥 Passport To Pimlico - 1949 - Stanley Holloway - 🎥 FULL MOVIE

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✅ The Story ...

The film's opening credits end with the words "dedicated to the memory of", with an image of Second World War British food and clothing ration coupons.

In post-Second World War London, an unexploded bomb detonates in Miramont Gardens, Pimlico.

The explosion reveals a long-buried cellar containing artwork, coins, jewellery and an ancient manuscript. The document is authenticated by the historian Professor Hatton-Jones as a royal charter of Edward IV that ceded a house and its estates to Charles, the last Duke of Burgundy when he sought refuge there after being presumed dead at the 1477 Battle of Nancy.

As the charter had never been revoked, an area of Pimlico is declared to still be a legal part of Burgundy.

As the British government has no legal jurisdiction, it requires the local residents to form a representative committee according to the laws of the long-defunct dukedom before negotiating with them. Ancient Burgundian law requires that the duke himself appoint a council.

Sébastien de Charolais arrives and presents his claim to the title, which is verified by Professor Hatton-Jones. He forms the governing body, which includes Spiller, the local policeman; Mr Wix, the manager of the bank branch; and Arthur Pemberton, a neighbourhood shopkeeper, who is appointed as Burgundy's prime minister. The council begin discussions with the government, particularly about the Burgundian treasure.

After it dawns on people that Burgundy is not subject to post-war rationing or other bureaucratic restrictions, the district is quickly flooded with black marketeers and shoppers. Spiller is unable to handle the rising tide of problems by himself. In response, the British authorities surround the Burgundian territory with barbed wire.

The residents retaliate against what they see as heavy-handed bureaucratic action; they stop a London Underground train as it passes through Burgundy, and ask to see passports of all passengers: those without documents are prevented from proceeding.

The British government retaliates by breaking off negotiations and isolating Burgundy. The residents are invited to "emigrate" to England, but few leave. Power, water and deliveries of food are all cut off at the border by the British. Late one night, the Burgundians covertly connect a hose to a nearby British water main and fill a bomb crater, solving the water problem, but this floods the food store.

Unable to overcome this new problem, the Burgundians prepare to give up. Sympathetic Londoners begin to throw food parcels across the barrier, and soon others join in; the Burgundians have an ample supply, and decide to stay. A helicopter pumps milk through a hose and pigs are parachuted into the area.

Meanwhile, the British government comes under public pressure to resolve the situation. It becomes clear to the British diplomats assigned to find a solution that defeating the Burgundians through starvation is both difficult and unpopular with the British people, so they negotiate.

The sticking point turns out to be the disposition of the unearthed treasure. Wix, now the Burgundian chancellor of the exchequer, suggests a Burgundian loan of the treasure to Britain.

With the final piece of the deadlock eliminated, Burgundy reunites with Britain, which also sees the return of rationing for food and clothing to the area.

The celebratory outdoor banquet is interrupted by heavy rain ...

✅ Credits :

Directed by : Henry Cornelius
Written by : T. E. B. Clarke
Produced by : Michael Balcon
Cinematography : Lionel Banes
Edited by : Michael Truman
Music by : Georges Auric
Production Company : Ealing Studios
Distributed by : General Film Distributors (UK)
Release Date : 28 April 1949

✅ Cast :

Stanley Holloway as Arthur Pemberton
Betty Warren as Connie Pemberton
Barbara Murray as Shirley Pemberton
Paul Dupuis as Sébastien de Charolais, Duke of Burgundy
John Slater as Frank Huggins
Jane Hylton as Molly Reed
Raymond Huntley as Mr Wix
Philip Stainton as PC Spiller
Roy Carr as Benny Spiller
Sydney Tafler as Fred Cowan
Nancy Gabrielle as Mrs Cowan
Malcolm Knight as Monty Cowan
Hermione Baddeley as Edie Randall
Roy Gladdish as Charlie Randall
Frederick Piper as Jim Garland
Charles Hawtrey as Bert Fitch
Margaret Rutherford as Professor Hatton-Jones
Naunton Wayne as Straker
Basil Radford as Gregg
Paul Demel as Central European
Michael Hordern as the Metropolitan policeman
Michael Craig

✅ Film Information Source :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passport_to_Pimlico

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