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3A 1949 comedy film from Creator/EalingStudios, directed by Henry Cornelius and starring Creator/StanleyHolloway, Creator/HermioneBaddeley, Creator/MargaretRutherford, and Paul Dupuis.
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5When an unexploded UsefulNotes/WorldWarII bomb is accidentally set off in the working-class Pimlico district of central UsefulNotes/{{London}}, long-buried documents are uncovered proving that the area is legally part of the Duchy of Burgundy, and therefore foreign territory. While the locals are only too glad of the opportunity to declare their independence from the bureaucracy and austerity of post-war UsefulNotes/{{Britain}}, the UK government responds by setting up border controls and export restrictions in an attempt to starve the Burgundians into submission. HilarityEnsues.
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7The film was a big influence on the 1959 Creator/ColumbiaPictures comedy ''Film/TheMouseThatRoared.''
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10!! ''Passport to Pimlico'' provides examples of:
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12* AlliterativeTitle.
13* AndImTheQueenOfSheba:
14-->'''Professor Hayton-Jones''': Picture a battlefield. 9,481 frozen corpses are all that remains of Burgundy's pride. The Duke himself lies slain among them. This poor naked body, robbed by harpies, bitten by wolves, the visage battered beyond recognition, this they accept as the last earthly remains of Charles VII, Duke of Burgundy, last of the line of Charolais. Do they judge correctly? Is this indeed the cadaver of Charles the Rash? Ha-ha! If so, then I am Joan of Arc.
15* CreatorInJoke: The radio announcement at the start mentions Latin music performed by "Les Norman and his Bethnal Green Bambinos". This is an in-joke referring to Ealing producer Leslie Norman. Bethnal Green was an unattractive area in the East End of London.
16* DramaticThunder: At the very moment Britain and Burgundy are reunited once more, as marked by the chimes of [[WestminsterChimes Big Ben,]] there's a clap of thunder, and rain pours down on the celebration banquet.
17* ForeignerForADay: The Burgandians.
18-->'''Mrs Pemberton''': We always were English and we always will be English; and it's just because we are English that we're sticking out for our right to be Burgundians!
19* HeatWave: The lunacy takes place during an uncharacteristic London heatwave. Only when the more traditional rain returns is normality restored.
20* ObstructiveBureaucrat: The British civil servants negotiating with the Burgundians aren't very competent. Usually it's themselves they obstruct. War-ravaged Brits had had enough of officialdom, which didn't let up during post-war reconstruction, and would have been glad of the opportunity to have a laugh at the officials' expense.
21* RealLifeWritesThePlot: When the film was shot, the UK was indeed going through a HeatWave, (1949 is considered one of the greatest summers of British history) so it was decided to write it into the plot, becoming one of the most loved plot points of whole film
22* TheSiege: The British government cuts off supplies of food, water and electricity but the Burgundians stand firm with the help of the stock held by [[MyLocal the pub]], a water pipe attached surreptitiously to a fire hydrant on the British side of the border, and food parcels thrown over the border by sympathetic Londoners.
23* {{Tuckerization}}: A placard can be seen that says "Forget that Cripps feeling". This refers to Stafford Cripps, who was the-then Chancellor of the Exchequer.

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