Passport To Pimlico. Image shows from L to R: Arthur Pemberton (Stanley Holloway), P.C. Spiller (Philip Stainton), Central European (Paul Demel). Copyright: Ealing Studios / STUDIOCANAL
Passport To Pimlico

Passport To Pimlico

  • 1949 film

Ealing comedy about a legal discovery that leads the residents of Pimlico to declare themselves an independent nation, Burgundy. Stars Stanley Holloway, Hermione Baddeley, Margaret Rutherford, Paul Dupuis, Raymond Huntley and more.

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Passport To Pimlico - Digitally Restored Blu-ray and DVD

An archaic document found at a bomb site reveals that the London's Pimlico has for centuries technically been part of France. The local residents embrace their new found continental status, seeing it as a way to avoid the drabness, austerity and rationing of post-war England. The authorities do not, however,...

Passport To Pimlico DVD

A delightful Ealing comedy set in the war-ravaged English capital. When an old document, found on a bombsite, reveals that the London district of Pimlico is in actual fact a part of the French duchy of Burgundy, the residents declare independence from Britain. They even set up customs' checkpoints for...

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