Passport to Pimlico
French Goings-On in the Heart of London.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 24 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 20, 2019
- Originally Released: 1949
- Label: Film Movement
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Stanley Holloway, Hermione Baddeley, Margaret Rutherford & Paul Dupuis | |
Performer: | John Slater, Jane Hylton, Raymond Huntley, Charles Hawtrey, Naunton Wayne & Basil Radford | |
Directed by | Henry Cornelius | |
Screenplay by | T.E.B. Clarke | |
Composition by | Georges Auric | |
Produced by | Michael Balcon |
Entertainment Reviews:
Sustained, lightweight comedy scoring a continual succession of laughs.
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Variety
4 stars out of 5 -- Cosy, likeable and poking mild fun at authority, PTP is the archetypal Ealing comedy.
Total Film
Rating: 4/5 --
Passport to Pimlico is a light-hearted, well-written comedy starring fine comic actors and is as entertaining today as it was upon its release in 1949.
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CineVue
Rating: 4/5 --
An entertaining effort from the Ealing studios that sadly hasn't proved as enduring as its peers.
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Empire Magazine
...The quintessential tale of a small community fighting back against the bureaucrats...
Sight and Sound
Rating: 4/5 --
A worthy restoration and a reminder of a (short) period when Britain were world leaders of thoughtful film comedy.
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Little White Lies
A treat.
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Chicago Reader
Product Description:
A classic British comedy, 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. Screenwriter T.E.B. Clarke received an Academy Award nomination for his script.