Passport to Pimlico (1949)
October 26, 1949Release Date
Passport to Pimlico (1949)
October 26, 1949Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Stanley Holloway
Arthur Pemberton
Hermione Baddeley
Edie Randall
Margaret Rutherford
Professor Hatton-Jones
Paul Dupuis
Duke of Burgundy
Raymond Huntley
Mr. Wix
John Slater
Frank Huggins
Jane Hylton
Molly
Betty Warren
Connie Pemberton
Barbara Murray
Shirley Pemberton
Sydney Tafler
Fred Cowan
Frederick Piper
Garland
Philip Stainton
P.C. Spiller
Charles Hawtrey
Bert Fitch
Basil Radford
Gregg
Naunton Wayne
Straker
Roy Carr
Benny Spiller
Nancy Gabrielle
Mrs. Cowan
Malcolm Knight
Monty Cowan
Roy Gladdish
Charlie Randall
Stuart Lindsell
Coroner
Gilbert Davis
Bagshawe
Michael Hordern
Bashford
Arthur Howard
Bassett
Bill Shine
Captain Willow
Harry Locke
Sergeant
Sam Kydd
Sapper
Joey Carr
Dave Parsons
Lloyd Pearson
Fawcett
Arthur Denton
Customs Official
Tommy Godfrey
Bus Conductor
James Hayter
Commissionaire
Masoni
Conjurer
Fred Griffiths
Spiv
Grace Arnold
Pompous Woman
Paul Demel
Central European
Henry Cornelius
Director
Michael Balcon
Producer
T. E. B. Clarke
Screenplay
E. V. H. Emmett
Associate Producer
Lionel Banes
Director of Photography
Stephen Dalby
Sound
Roy Oxley
Art Direction
Gordon Scott
Assistant Director
Cecil Cooney
Camera Operator
Ernest Taylor
Makeup Artist
Arthur Bradburn
Sound Recordist
Michael Truman
Editor
Georges Auric
Original Music Composer
Anthony Mendleson
Costume Design
Barbara Barnard
Hairstylist
Ralph D. Hogg
Unit Production Manager
Hal Mason
Production Supervisor
Jean Graham
Continuity
Ernest Irving
Conductor
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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 and written by T. E. B. Clarke. The story concerns the unearthing of treasure and documents that lead to a small part of Pimlico to be declared a legal part of the House of Burgundy, and therefore exempt from the post-war rationing or other bureaucratic restrictions in Britain.
Passport to Pimlico explores the spirit and unity of wartime London after the war and offers an examination of the English character. Like other Ealing comedies, the film pits a small group of British people against a series of changes to the status quo from an external agent. The story was an original concept by the screenwriter T. E. B. Clarke. He was inspired by an 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 Juliana of the Netherlands gave birth, the baby was born on Dutch territory and would not lose her right to the throne.
Passport to Pimlico was well-received on its release. The film was released in the same year as Whisky Galore! and Kind Hearts and Coronets. Passport to Pimlico was nominated for the British Academy Film Award for Best British Film and the Academy Award for Writing (Story and Screenplay). There have since been two BBC Radio adaptations: the first in 1952, the second in 1996.