Passport To Pimlico
Dir: Henry Cornelius
1949
****
Passport to Pimlico is classic Ealing Comedy. It was one of the first so it may be a little rough round the edges compared to the films that came after but the cast is brilliant; Stanley Holloway, Hermione Baddeley, Margaret Rutherford, Michael Hordern, Harry Locke and a rather young Charles Hawtrey to name a few. The best of British comedy (and Hammer Horror come to think of it). The story still stands today though, it's particularly clever, very witty and thoroughly British. I love it. The best line of the Film: "We always were English, and we'll always be English, and it's just because we are English that we're sticking up for our rights to be Burgundians!"