Feb 7th    
Passport to Pimlico***  
(GB 1949)                                                     

A post-war London borough unearths evidence that it is actually owned by the Duke of Burgundy and therefore free of rationing and other English laws.
Only fleetingly fantastical and whimsical but always enjoyable gentle satire of Britain at the time (with its opening epitaph to ration books), one of Ealing's best at conveying the common spirit of the nation (generations before the sad uncertainty and insecurity of "Brexit") in semi-documentary fashion, with plenty of twists and turns in the script and a great British cast.

Written by: T.E.B. Clarke.
Producer: E.V.H. Emmett.
Director: Henry Cornelius.
Starring: Stanley Holloway, Raymond Huntley, Margaret Rutherford, Hermione Baddeley, Barbara Murray, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Paul Dupuis, John Slater, Jane Hylton, Sidney Tafler, Charles Hawtrey, Michael Hordern, and others.
Photography: Lionel Banes.
Music: Georges Auric.

PASSPORT TO PIMLICO. Pimlico was actually Hercules Road, Lambeth for filming purposes, now a silent ghost of a gentler, less cynical Britain long before the days of "Brexit".