Passport to Pimlico
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Passport to Pimlico is a 1949 British Ealing Studios comedy film in which a London neighborhood discovers an old document that technically makes it part of Burgundy, leading to a wave of humorous bureaucratic and political chaos.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Ealing comedy
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film ⓘ |
| awardNominatedFor |
Academy Award for Best Motion Picture Story
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Academy Award for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Lionel Banes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| director | Henry Cornelius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
Ealing Studios
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General Film Distributors NERFINISHED ⓘ Universal-International (United States) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Michael Truman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Lambeth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
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satirical film ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Arthur Pemberton
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Duke of Burgundy NERFINISHED ⓘ Gladys Pemberton NERFINISHED ⓘ Professor Hatton-Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFilmFormat | black-and-white ⓘ |
| musicBy | Georges Auric NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme |
bureaucracy
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national identity ⓘ rationing and postwar austerity ⓘ |
| notableFor | satirising postwar British bureaucracy and government controls ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Ealing comedies cycle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plotSummary | Residents of a London district discover an ancient charter proving they are legally part of the Duchy of Burgundy, leading them to declare independence and triggering bureaucratic and political complications. ⓘ |
| producer | Michael Balcon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Ealing Studios NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1949-04-28 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1949 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 84 ⓘ |
| screenplayBasedOn | original story by T. E. B. Clarke ⓘ |
| screenwriter | T. E. B. Clarke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
London, England
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surface form:
London
Pimlico NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starredActor |
Basil Radford
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Hermione Baddeley NERFINISHED ⓘ Jane Hylton NERFINISHED ⓘ John Slater NERFINISHED ⓘ Margaret Rutherford NERFINISHED ⓘ Naunton Wayne NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Dupuis NERFINISHED ⓘ Raymond Huntley NERFINISHED ⓘ Stanley Holloway NERFINISHED ⓘ Sydney Tafler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodDepicted | post-World War II Britain ⓘ |
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Michael Balcon