Passport to Pimlico-1949-Stanley Holloway, Margaret Rutherford, John Slater

Passport to Pimlico is a 1949 British comedy film made by Ealing Studios. The film’s opening credits end with the words “dedicated to the memory of“, with an image of Second World War British food and clothing ration coupons.[2] In post-Second World War London, an unexploded bomb detonates in Miramont Gardens, Pimlico. The explosion reveals a buried cellar containing artwork, coins, jewellery and an ancient manuscript. The document is authenticated by the historian Professor Hatton-Jones as a royal charter of Edward IV that ceded a house and its estates to Charles VII, the last Duke of Burgundy, when he sought refuge there after being presumed dead at the 1477 Battle of Nancy. As the charter had never been revoked, an area of Pimlico is declared to still be a legal part of Burgundy. As the British government has no legal jurisdiction, it requires the local residents to form a representative committee according to the laws of the long-defunct dukedom before negotiating with them.